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Re: Implementation of Developer's DB



On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:17:26AM +0000, Philip Hands wrote:

> >     >> Some people might want to be able to prefilter their mail into
> >     >> folders for different packages, and so encode the package into
> >     >> the email address.
> > 
> >  They should use `plussed' addresses for that, perhaps.  eg:
> >  `karlheg+cvsweb@debian.org'.  There is support for this in
> >  `sendmail', and I would assume that `qmail' can deal with it.
> 
> I thought that the convention was to use ``minused'' addresses for this:
> 
>   karlheg-cvsweb@debian.org

This is the mechanism that I use at packages.debian.org.  It looks
for a file ~$(maintainer)/.qmail-$(package).

Regards,

	Joey

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