Re: [Exim] List-separator of null character?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Phil Pennock
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] List-separator of null character?
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Phil Pennock wrote:

> CDB file, key->value:
> example.org -> fred:"foo:bar":barney
>
> and then:
>
> local_parts = $domain_data
>
> Should that match correctly?


No, sorry. You'd end up with

local_parts = fred:"foo:bar":barney

which doesn't work. The mechanism for escaping the separator in lists is
to double the separator, not to quote the item in which it appears.

If you made your value fred:foo::bar:barney

then it would work.

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