readers.conf proposal: (was Re: incoming.conf length limits)

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> Just making the current behavior the default would get that, though.  As
> long as the default is "break: true" (or conversly "fallthru: false"),
> existing files will be fine exactly as is.

That's a good point.

Hm, can we make this somewhat simpler by, say, adding a new key to the
access group called "append:" that takes a boolean value and defaults to
false?  If false, this access group overrides any previous matching access
groups; if set to true, permissions granted are appended to those of any
previous matching access group.

For whatever reason, I can wrap my mind around that a bit easier than
break/fallthru.

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