On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Frank Heydlauf wrote:
> For historical reasons I have an alias-file which contains not only the
> well known "<local-part>: <list of forwarder/pipe/mbox>" but although
> some additional parts.
>
> The format is:
>
> <local-part> <a> <b> <c> <d> <list of forwarder/pipe/mbox>
>
> a,b,c,d are password, quota and some other flags, used for
> qpopper, web-interface, ... (no real-accounts!)
>
> My question now:
> Can I use this file in exim to route my mails?
Yes. I assume you are using Exim 3. Try a director like this:
my_aliases:
driver = smartuser
new_address = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/the/alias/file}\
{\
${if match{$value}{^(\\S+\\s+)\{4\}(.*)}{$2}}\
}\
fail}
The regular expressions assumes the separators are spaces. I have not
tested this.
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