Philip Hazel wrote...
> On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
[...]
> > What you had before never should have worked, but it appears that some
> > sloppiness was allowed in alias files. Guess it no longer is.
>
> It isn't documented (but I have a note to say that it should be) that
> white space is acceptable as a terminator for keys in lsearched files as
That's what I thought was the case from reading the list.
[...]
> However, there was a change in Exim 2.03 to allow spaces *before* the
> optional colon, e.g.
>
> postmaster : joe, bill, bob
>
> I do not seem to have recorded why this change was made: the only note
> in the ChangeLog is
IIRC this was to do with compatability with some sendmail variants, I
could be wrong of course.
[...]
> I obviously overlooked the fact that allowing spaces means that you
> *must* put in the colon if the data part of the record starts with a
> colon. I will stress this point when the manual gets revised.
As long as I know I'm not loosing my mind ;)
Mark
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