On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> address@???
> *.domain.example
>
> These were matched in the v3 configuration using e.g
>
> sender_reject_recipients = partial-dbm;/etc/exim/sender_reject.db
... which was confusing because the partial- applied only to part of
what it did.
> There seems to be some confusion amongst us as to how to write this in
> v4. My colleague (currently away on hols) had at first written
>
> deny senders = *@partial-dbm;CONFIG_DIR/sender_reject.db
>
> but had then observed that it wasn't working as intended, and had
> temporarily added a second lookup
> : dbm;CONFIG_DIR/sender_reject.db
>
> on the end to get the desired effect.
Indeed.
> When I came to look at this, I interpreted 9.4 and 9.5 to be saying
> that it _should_ be written:
>
> deny senders = partial-dbm*@;CONFIG_DIR/sender_reject.db
Section 10.12 points out that you can't use partial lookups like this in
address lists.
> What's the answer, please?
deny senders = *@partial-dbm;CONFIG_DIR/sender_reject.db : \
dbm;CONFIG_DIR/sender_reject.db : \
does exactly what Exim 3 did. It just has to be specified a bit more
explicitly.
Philip
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