On Wed, 5 May 2004, Michael Haardt wrote:
> The verification type is a positional argument, tagged arguments
> are defer_ok and callout:
>
> verify = recipient/defer_ok/callout=10s,defer_ok
>
> Actually, I wonder why it is not
>
> verify = recipient,defer_ok/callout=10s,defer_ok
>
> or
>
> verify = recipient/defer_ok/callout=10s/defer_ok
>
> Perhaps someone else can answer that.
History. This was not designed as a complete syntax; it grew. Originally
we just had
verify = recipient
Then I wanted to add some options, an I chose / as the separator
verify = recipient/defer_ok
verify = recipient/callout
verify = recipient/callout/defer_ok
But callout needs an option to change the timeout, so we get
verify = recipient/callout=10s
Then we need some more options for callout, so that's where the comma
came in...
I'm sure if all the requirements had been thought of at the start,
something different would have emerged. If only I were clairvoyant... :-)
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