Re: [EXIM] relay domains and DBM files - wildcarding

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > use 'partial-dbm' instead of 'dbm' to do wildcard lookups, then 'customer.com'
> > and 'sub.customer.com' would both work as intended, but also you'd have the
> > side-effect that 'noncustomer.com' would also work!
> No. Partial lookups do not work in the same way as * in literal strings.
> They work on a component basis (see 6.5). If a dbm file's key is
> *.customer.com
> it matches customer.com and anything.customer.com but not anythingcustomer.com.

thanks for this clarification, much appreciated.

Paul


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