I used hostmaster+customerID@??? for my registrations with NSI
1995-96 and if I recall, NSF Net prior to 95. I'm not sure if I can
find any old messages, but I can certainly give an afidavit to that
fact.
Sendmail didn't have straight forward virtual users at that point, and
I didn't want to create additional unix accounts to store
registration/payment emails related to each customers domains.
This way, if Jason Godsey customer ID 1 had 10 domains, they'd each be
accessed in Pine via the hostmaster account, in ~/mail/0001.
The email address I'd provide on registration emails was
hostmaster+0001@???
--- Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> I have been asked for evidence of when local part suffixes were first
> used for sorting messages into different folders (for a patent
> issue).
> The suffixes were in Exim from the start (and were previously in
> Smail
> 3), but the earliest clue I have about using them for sorting is in
> the
> Exim 1.62 documentation. This is too late (1997). Unfortunately, I do
> not have any earlier Exim sources or documentation apart from a 0.12
> source which has incomplete documentation (and pre-dates filters,
> which
> were added at 0.43).
>
> Do any old-timers on this list have any Exim sources or documentation
>
> from release 0.54 or earlier? Or evidence of the use of local part
> suffixes for message sorting from 1996 or earlier? If so, please get
> in
> touch.
>
> Philip
>
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> Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.
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