Re: [Exim] Wishlist, JIS safe custom error messages

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Author: Christian Balzer
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Wishlist, JIS safe custom error messages
Philip wrote:

>On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Christian Balzer wrote:

[JIS stuff]
>
>If you put a string like that into a bounce message file that is
>expanded, you must escape the dollar signs. Or surround the whole
>sequence with \N ... \N which disables expansion for what is in between.
>

Duh, I should have known by now that if something works in one place
(I use \N \N in other places and for other reasons already) it will
work everywhere. :)

>> An obvious solution would be to ignore unknown $xyz sequences
>
>On general principles, I do not like that. A simple typo then goes
>unnoticed. Far too much of a gotcha.
>

Understood and agreed, esp. with the above workaround present.

>> Along the same lines I would suggest adding a quota_warn_message_file
>> option,
>
>Noted.
>

Thanks a bundle.

Oh, something I wanted to wishlist for the longest time and keep
forgetting...

It would be lovely if exim_checkaccess would bypass any and all delays
in ACLs. You don't want to wait 30s or more if you're testing an IP
that is in an ACL which triggers a delay (or several).

Regards,

Christian Balzer
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