On 21 Mar 2000, at 8:38, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Mark Baker wrote:
>
> > ----- Forwarded message from root <root@???> -----
> >
> > The director suffix option is supposed to be a string-list.
> >
> > However, suffix = .*:-* is _not_ equivalent to two separate directors with
> > .* rsp. -*; it does not recognize an address like user-some.thing-else
> > as belonging to user
>
> That is because the list is processed from left to right, and processing
> stops as soon as a suffix matches. It will turn that address into
>
> local_part = user-some
> suffix = .thing-else
>
> If you had defined the suffix list the other way round it would have
> turned it into
>
> local_part = user
> suffix = -some.thing-else
>
> I'm afraid that's just the way suffixes work.
Seems to me that's not very useful. Seems to me when there's need for
a string-*list* in the first place, you'd want the *correct* match,
not the *first*.
Maybe it would be better to not use a list, but (optionally?) use a
regex instead?
Regards - Kai Henningsen
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