On Fri, 4 May 2001, Matt Bernstein wrote:
> I have a director like this:
>
> redirect_aliases:
> driver = smartuser
> domains = DCS_DOMAINS
> local_parts = lsearch;/etc/mail/redirect_aliases
> new_address = :fail: user has moved; please try <${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/mail/redirect_aliases}{$value}}>
> suffix = /*
> suffix_optional
> verify_only
>
> ..but it looks like (with exim -d11 -bv) Exim fails to strip a suffix (if
> supplied), and unfortunately the message is picked up by a subsequent
> director.
This is documented as a warning somewhere in the manual: do a grep for
suffix on spec.txt. The suffix is not stripped until after the
"local_parts" setting has been done.
This is a gotcha that will be changed in Exim 4.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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