Re: [Exim] exiscan-acl-4.33-20

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Author: Matthew Byng-Maddick
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Subject: Re: [Exim] exiscan-acl-4.33-20
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 03:13:57PM +0200, Michael Haardt wrote:
> > True, it was not meant to replace your patch 1:1. My problem is that I
> > must stay backwards compatible with existing configurations. What I can
> > offer in the next version is to expand the spamd_address option before
> > using it (each time "spam" is called). You can then use ACL variables to
> > have the a lookup return a different address set.
> Please don't. I suggested before to separate the code that communicates
> with spamd from the option parsing code. To stay compatible, first try
> to parse options using the old syntax. If that fails, parse the new
> syntax, whatever that may be. I suggest attribute-value pairs.
> That's both backward compatible and easy to use.


Tom's suggestion is, however, more in the spirit of the rest of exim's
current configuration philosophy.

MBM

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