Re: Retries

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Max Caines
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Retries
On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Max Caines wrote:

> I have a retry specification in my configuration file like this
>
> ^.*@wbs(\\.(wlv|wolverhampton)\\.ac\\.uk)?$   *    F,90d,2h



Max,

This is perhaps a poor design in Exim. The first field in a retry
statement is read verbatim; it is not treated as if it were part of a
string in quotes. Consequently, you don't need to double the backslash
characters. Too late to change now, but I will add a remark to the
manual.

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