* Peter T. Abplanalp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-11 13:45]:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 01:32:19PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote:
> > * Johan Almqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-11 05:46]:
> > > No, because the address subscribed to this list is johan-mutt and I have
> > >
> > > #cat .qmail-mutt
> > > ~/Maildir/.mutt/
> > >
> > > That's a lot better that filtering based on some header...
> >
> > huh?  since when does this list get distributed via "johan-mutt"?
>
> he is talking about the qmail extension addresses.  if you use qmail
> as your mta, you can create infinite extension addresses of the form
> <system-id>-<extension>@domain which correspond to
> delivery instruction files of the form ~/.qmail-<extension>.

i know - but obviously i was under the impression that
qmail would only use this when the address appears in
the address lines (Cc:/To:) - but i was wrong there.

i'd have looked it up - but those qmail man pages are
not available on this system (or they moved.. whatever).

> it is a handy feature of qmail.

been using it for *years*.
(check my webpages! :-)

Sven

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