On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> 34. Changed (incompatibly, but hopefully not so it affects anyone) the
> appendfile transport in the case when it is called directly as a result of
> a .forward or a filter file requesting a delivery to a file. Previously,
> any settings of "file" or "directory" were ignored in this case. Now they
> are used. The path received from the router is in $address_file (as
> before) and can therefore be included in the expansion.
ISTR the rationale for this was so that you could do useful things with
$address_file to fix up the result of a filter file. This allows you to
re-arrange a system without disrupting your users' filtering.
Tony.
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