Re: [Exim] verify and condition (2)

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Phil Chambers
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] verify and condition (2)
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Phil Chambers wrote:

> However, exim always invokes the perl script, even when $message_id is null. Does
> that mean that exim always evaluates all the components of an "and" before deciding
> if the result is true?


No, but it scans all the components for syntax. It is *supposed* not to
actually execute things it doesn't need to. However, looking at the code
for ${run, it appears that there is a bug which is causing it not to skip
the execution in this case.

I'll try to post a patch later today.

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