BW> Is there a reason for this (other than that it is convenient :-D)?

For the all/newfiles listings it doesn't need to have the wildcard so I could change it there, but for offline mail it absolutely needs to use a wildcard because there is a big full directory of files which can vary.

The archiver needs to be able to use a filemask to zip at least in that case.

... Confucius say: "Man who runs behind car gets exhausted"

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