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 -- Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
