On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Marc Haber wrote:
> deny message = go away
> hosts = /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist
>
> everything works as desired. I can write host names, IP addresses and
> network/prefix in the file and the hosts named in the file are
> blocked.
>
> However, when I want to have that option in the default configuration
> of exim in a Linux distribution, I can't have exim failing on me if
> the file does not exist. So, I wrote:
>
> deny message = go away
> hosts = ${if exists{/etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist}\
> {/etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist}\
> {}}
>
> However, exim does seem to interpret the string returned by that
> expression as a host name instead of a file.
It shouldn't. I'm going to suggest you use "exim -d -bh ...." again to
try to see what is going on.
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