On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:31:08 -0500 "Tony Byers" wrote:
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> ---- Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Tony Byers wrote:
>>
>> > I have a special director set up with a condition to only handle
>> mail
>> > with a hyphen in it. Here it is:
>> >
>> > special_director:
>> > condition = ${if match{$local_part}{.*-.*}{true}{false}}
>> > driver = forwardfile
>> > file = ${perl{getadds}}
>> > filter
why not simply use
local-parts = ^[^\\-]+\\-[^@]+
or
local-parts = ^[^\\-]*\\-[^@]*
if you really want to match localparts like 'blah-' or '-blah'.
>> >
>> > It doesn't match when I send something to x-y@???, but when I
>> run
>> > it through exim -be, this is the result:
>> >
>> > # exim -be
>> > > ${if match{x-y}{.*-.*}{true}{false}}
>> > true
what you may have missed here is that whatever goes between the
curly brackets is returned, in the case the string 'true', which
is probably not what you want.
there is also the nice little pcretest tool to test your
regexes. I use it a lot, saves plenty of debugging time.
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Regards,
Bernard Stern, SWITCH
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