Re: [Exim] Mailman with Exim 4 and ${lc:...} error

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Author: Paul Makepeace
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To: exim-users
Old-Topics: Re: [Exim] Mailman with Exim 4 and ${lc:...} error
Subject: Re: [Exim] Mailman with Exim 4 and ${lc:...} error
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:55:04AM +0100, John Horne wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Jochen Erwied wrote:
>
> > require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db
> >
> > results in an error:
> >
> > failed to expand "/home/mailman/lists/${lc" for require_files: "${lc"
> > is not a known operator (or a } is missing in a variable reference)
>
> Notice the string it is trying to expand. Remember that require_files is
> _a list_.
>
> s/:/::/


FWIW, I just got burned by this as well. Perhaps there is some more
cunning magick that could be added to the convert script (which didn't
catch it)? I had a look myself but couldn't make much sense of it in the
short time I had. Would this be a hard problem or is it just another
regex tweak?

Cheers,
Paul


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