Re: [EXIM] Case issues in sender_reject_recipients? (1.73)

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Author: Alan Thew
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To: Philip Hazel
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Subject: Re: [EXIM] Case issues in sender_reject_recipients? (1.73)
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Alan Thew wrote:
>
> > I've tried on a test exim (still 1.73) but used
> >
> > sender_reject = "Best-Biz@???"
> >
> > and this fails it straight away.
>
> Sorry, I'm now confused as to what the problem was. Had you put
> mixed-case keys into your DBM file?

Yes.

> How did you build it? Did you use
> dbmbuild? That was created for making local alias files, and is
> documented as lowercasing the keys. Perhaps that was a mistake.


Yes, as I've now found out using lsearch on a very small file.
>
> Oh dear. What a mess. I wonder what the best way out of all this is?
>
> I think that if you use an @@ style of blocking file, so that your
> entry would read
>
> goplay.com: Best-Biz
>
> then it would work, since the key is a domain and those are
> case-insensitive.


Would this be much of an extra overhead?

Thanks.
>

Alan Thew


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