Hi there,
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, George Schlossnagle wrote:
> I have a feeling this is a stupid question, but try as I might, I can't
> figure it out. I want to rewrite mails from hosts that match
> mg*.my.domain as one thing and ones that match bp*.my.domain as another.
>
> I'm using the rules:
>
> *@mg*.my.domain bob@???
> *@bp*.my.domain bob@???
>
> However, when I try to dliver mail, mg103.my.domain matches nothing.
If you use the address test mode, eg:
exim -bt someone@???
You can see the result more easily than attempting to send mail. You can
also add the debugging option (eg -d9) to see exactly what is happening.
The problem is that exim will first lookup "someone@???" and
then "*@mg103.my.domain". It only performs lookups (AFAIK), and does not
go through matching wildcards anywhere.
What you probably need is to specify each sub-domain on a seperate line:
*@mg1.my.domain bob@???
*@mg2.my.domain bob@???
...
*@mg253.my.domain bob@???
*@mg254.my.domain bob@???
or similar. This is probably the best way to do this, and it pretty easy
to do with a OneLinePerlScript (TM), ie:
perl -e 'foreach (1..254) { print "*\@mg$_.my.domain\t\tbob\@mg.domain\n" }'
Hope this helps,
Corin
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