Re: Regular expression in address lists

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John Horne
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Regular expression in address lists
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, John Horne wrote:

> Before we start...I have read the manual and as far as I can see this should
> work (famous last words).
>
> I'm trying to use regular expressions with the "sender_reject_except"
> option. "sender_reject" contains just "plymouth.ac.uk" (this is for testing
> only BTW), and any message I send gets (correctly) rejected. If I use
> "jhorne@???" with "sender_reject_except" then exim (correctly)
> accepts the message. But if I use "^jhorne@???$" then the message
> is again rejected. Surely the two should in effect be the same? Escaping the
> dots in the latter makes no difference (as expected).
>
> I'll try some more combinations, but it looks right to me.


Just tried the equivalent on my workstation, and in those Immortal
Words, "it works for me". There must be something else in your
configuration that is interacting badly. Send it to me and I'll take a
look.

-- 
Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
ph10@???             New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
P.Hazel@???          England.  Phone: +44 1223 334714



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