On Thu, 16 May 2002, dman wrote:
> | this is spam
> | well, i do like you
> | no more spam!
>
> That is not an lsearch file. You need a ':' to terminate the key and
> begin the value part of the key-value pair.
Actually, you don't. Exim recognizes white space also.
> with lsearch, you might not be able to handle a subject with a ':' in
You can't handle keys with either colons or white space in them with
lsearch (and you can't have newlines in the data).
> or Fw: to the subject, or when a mailling list adds stuff like [Exim]
> in front of the subject. These last situations can't be handled by a
> key-value lookup.
You can have colons and spaces in key-value lookups that are not
lsearches (e.g. dbm, cdb, NIS).
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