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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:28:23 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au>
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In the last episode (Sep 10), Andrew Reilly said:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> > > really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
> > 
> > It's even "easier" :-)
> > I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as
> >     maex-listname@space.net
> 
> Well, that's arguably the way qmail wants it to be, but not helpful
> if you want your mailing list traffic to come through the one
> ISP-provided pop account.  (Costs less that way, with my current
> ISP.)

If your ISP runs sendmail (possibly other MTAs), you can use the
user+detail@host.com syntax.  All mail is sent to the "user" mailbox,
but filters like procmail see the "detail" portion too, and can filter
on it.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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