Re: [Exim] Exim4: semantic checks with '-bV'?

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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Dla: John Horne
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Temat: Re: [Exim] Exim4: semantic checks with '-bV'?
On 20 Jul 2002, John Horne wrote:

> host_lookup = ! local_hosts
>
> Whilst this 'looks' okay and passes the '-bV' syntax check, it in fact
> should have been:
>
> host_lookup = ! +local_hosts


> Is it possible to incorporate a little semantic check of literal names
> to see if they have also been declared as a hostlist, domainlist, etc?


Yes, but I don't think this should be in the normal path, as Exim would
then be doing this check again and again and again, which seems to me to
be wasteful. However, it could be incorporated into something like the
-bV check, I guess. I'll need to think about this.

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