On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, John Henders wrote:
> like to be able to specify something like /vars/spool/mail/a/alex,
> /var/spool/mail/b/bob easily in the configuration file.
If you are prepared to do a file lookup, you can do this already by
specifying something like
file = "/vars/spool/mail/\
${lookup{$local_part}dbm{/etc/spoolsplit}{$value}{default}}/\
$local_part"
in the appendfile transport, where the source of /etc/spoolsplit would
contain lines like
alex: a
bob: b
and if an entry wasn't found, it would use
/vars/spool/mail/default/$local_part
However, to do something like "take the first letter of the local part"
without a file lookup needs a new operator in the expansion mechanism.
That would be easy to do, I think. I have noted the idea.
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