Out of curiosity, is this a documented feature? I don't remember ever reading this anywhere.
It's in the qmail docs.
man dot-qmail
It isn't in there explicitly, but it says that lines starting with # are ignored, and that qmail-local will only process .qmail files that aren't empty.
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