On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:32:04AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> Hello all and thank you to MBM for his/her suggestions to my previous post.
His, please. :-)
> I am running exim 4.1 and trying to put comments on multiline alias
> lists in /etc/aliases.
I'm not sure about the comments bit.
> MBM, are you using the same version of exim as I am? Any thoughts as to
> why we are getting different results?
I've done what I posted on exims 3.22 - 3.36 and 4.10. It has always worked
fine for me.
> Anyone have thoughts on how to get comments at the end of aliases that
> span more than one line?
Not sure how you'd do that.
> Results:
> ==============
> == below fails
> originalto: em1, \
> em2, \
> em3, \
> em4, \
> em5
OK, looking at the code, I'm not sure why this works, but I'm pretty certain
that it does.
> == below works
> originalto: em1,
> em2,
> em3,
> em4,
> em5
This ought to work.
> == below fails
> originalto: em1,
> em2,
> em3, #comment
> em4,
> em5
And comments only appear to be valid at the beginning of lines.
MBM
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