Re: [Exim] Odd behaviour with nested lookups in 3.02

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Paul Makepeace
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Odd behaviour with nested lookups in 3.02
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Paul Makepeace wrote:

> For the sake of clarity I've split them over several lines. For some reason I
> can't break these with backslashes or else I get:
>
> 1999-07-12 20:28:15 Exim configuration error
> option "" unknown in line 321


You need to put the value in double quotes if you want to use backslash
for line splitting.

> Anyway, that's not the point ;-) (but is something I'd like to be able to do,
> esp. with lines like the above). The point is that redundant/extra LDAP
> lookups are happening.


Which version of Exim? The following bug was fixed in 3.02:

14. Expansion of an ${if} item was doing the lookups in the substring that
wasn't going to be used, instead of skipping them.

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