On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Dr. Rich Artym wrote:
> I could have used "local_parts" or "prefix" or most other options that
> can cause director bypass by making their matches fail through appropriate
> use of $lookup return values if only their argument string-lists were
> expanded, but they're not, according to the spec, which is precisely the
> point that I was making.
OK, the point has finally got through to me!
> More (preferably universal) expansion would
> be a good thing to make string behaviour consistent throughout the config,
I started out by trying to expand more things than smail did, for
similar reasons, but appear still to have not been general enough. I'll
certainly take a look at the generic options and maybe other things as
well.
> By the way, errors_to is shown as expanded in the example for aliasfile
> but is not described as expanded in the spec, nor in that for forwardfile.
That's two bugs in the spec; expansion does happen in both cases. Thanks
for pointing this out.
[Various extension ideas]
> So many ideas, so few people to implement them ... :-)
Absolutely! Thanks for the ideas. I've added them to my ideas list.
Philip
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