On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Robert Kehl wrote:
> This is the intended behaviour IMHO. A macro simply substitutes it's
> name through it's exact contents. An example - you define a multiline
> macro using \ like this:
>
> MYMACRO=warn message = X-Test: YES \
> condition = ${if {$h_subject}{macro test}{yes}{no}}
>
> In your acl you might have:
>
> MYMACRO
> log_message = mymacro triggered.
>
> After macro substitution, it will become:
>
> warn message = X-Test: YES \
> condition = ${if {$h_subject}{macro test}{yes}{no}}
> log_message = mymacro triggered.
Close, but not quite right. What actually happens is that \
continuations are processed very early on. So when Exim reads the two
lines
MYMACRO=warn message = X-Test: YES \
condition = ${if {$h_subject}{macro test}{yes}{no}}
it converts them into
MYMACRO=warn message = X-Test: YES condition = ${if {$h_subject}{macro test}{yes}{no}}
before defining the macro.
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