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Re: VMailer/postfix: Am I really the only one ?



On Sat, February 6 1999, tuvia beker <becket@cc.huji.ac.il> wrote:
|On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Ira Abramov wrote:
|> Dan Bernstein chose - instead of + at some point, I don't remember where
|> it is explained, but ira-friends, or my mailing list ira-tech are both
|> managed by me in my home directlry with ~ira/.qmail-friends and
|> ~ira/.qmail-tech respectively. AFAIK there is a definition .h file you can
|> edit for Qmail at compile time to make it use+ too. I personally don't
|> know what difference it makes other than - is indeed sometimes used in
|> usernames (never saw + in a username), but on the other hand, ira-tech is
|> more readable at a quick glance than ira+tech (at least with my current
|> font). I have no idea if there are deeper technical reasons...
|> 
|I don't know about the header file change, but will check it. I think it

The sixth field in Qmail's "assign" file defines the delimiter.

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