Re: Re[4]: [Exim] exim 3.952 -- sender reject issue

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Author: Kirill Miazine
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: Re[4]: [Exim] exim 3.952 -- sender reject issue
* Richard Welty <rwelty@???> [20020116 18:03]:
[...]
> > > one of two things is true:
> > >
> > > partial-lsearch has different semantics in exim 4, and convert4r4
> > needs a
> >
> > Yes that's right. In Exim 3 partial-lookup worked differntly depending
> > on what was looked up, that't not the case with Exim 4 - partial-lookup
> > is partial-lookup no matter what is looked up.
>
> hmm. i just went to section 9.5 in the manual i have on my laptop for
> 3.951, and partial-lsearch as described should have worked in my original
> 3.952 config. i'll have to fetch a copy of the docs that accompany 3.952
> and see if they have changed.
>
> > > minor tweak
>
> > > or
>
> > > partial-lsearch (w/o *@) isn't quite right in the testing release.
>
> > I disagree:
>
> > See spec_9.html#SECT9.5 and spec_10.html#SECT10.13. The latter describes
> > partial-lookup with *@ (or localpart@).
>
> my review of 9.4 and 9.5 leaves me unpersuaded. i'm going to have to spend
> some time reviewing 10.13; it's been a while since i read it (more than a
> couple of releases ago), and it's a complex section.


Yeah, that *@partial-lookup thing is a tricky one. Read these messages:

http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20011126/032627.html
http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20011126/032669.html
http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20011203/032711.html

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Kirill