Philip Hazel [ph10@???] wrote:
-> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:
-> > > -> senders= ! ^autoreply@ : ! ^vacation@ : ! ${local_part} : !
->
-> Thinking about this, I have realized that I gave the wrong answer. Or
-> possibly the right answer for the wrong reason. The poster was using
-> Exim 3.12. There was a bug in that version of Exim, which was fixed in
-> 3.13. The bug was as follows:
->
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-> 2. The "senders" setting on directors and routers was getting string expanded
-> twice, by mistake. This mattered if after the first expansion there was a \ or
-> a $ in the string (e.g. in a regex).
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->
-> My answer was an instant reaction to seeing the error message (which
-> complained about a $ that could not be understood by the string expander).
->
-> Inserting two more \\ would work in 3.12, but not in 3.13, where the
-> original line is in fact correct. Therefore, the best approach for 3.12
-> would be my final solution, which avoids using any use of backslashes.
Hi,
even this resulted in the same output of an endless local loop.
Would it help if I posted the Router and Transport conf-entries?
kind regards
Juergen Hoffmann
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