On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> I want to have file with wildcards in aliases like:
>
> cvs-*: root
> system-*: admin
I'm afraid you can't do that (at least, not directly).
> data = ${lookup{$local_part}wildlsearch{/etc/mail/aliases}}
> But that doesn't work like expected:
The reason is that the "*" feature in Exim is very restricted. It *only*
works as a leading character - a shorthand for "ends with". If you want
fancier patterns, you must use a regular expression. For "begins with",
which is what you have here, you could use
^cvs- root
Note that
^cvs-.* root
is the same, but wastes some resources unnecessarily.
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