Re: [Exim] Local parts as regular expressions

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Author: John Horne
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Local parts as regular expressions
On 22-Aug-2001 at 13:18:59 Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>> Wow, you're right. The documentaiton for the local_parts option doesn't
>> actually say that regular expressions are allowed!
>
> It does if you read it right. :-))
>
>     The driver is run only if the local part of the address matches the
>     list, which is tested in the same way as a domain list and which
>     may therefore include plain file names, file lookups, and
>     negation.

>

Gah! You are right :-)

> ... but it should perhaps also explicitly say "regular expression".
>

Yup, I think so.

> I didn't think it was worth inventing a whole new category of "local
> part list" just for this one option.
>

Nope.

Many thanks,

John.

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