On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Steffen Heil wrote:
> As you see, there was a typo between the transport option of the router and
> the actual transport name.
Sigh. Originally, Exim checked transport names on loading. Then I was
persuaded to make the "transport" option an expandable string...
> However, exim didn't detect an error when loading, even worse, IT USED THE
> WRONG TRANSPORT silently...
That seems unbelievable. Have you got evidence to prove this?
> Is this a bug?
If true, yes, but I can't think how it could find a transport with the
wrong name.
> Or is there a maximum length for router/transport names?
There does seem to be a buffer of length 64 in there. Long enough for
your names, however.
> If so, why is there no warning about two equally named transports?
There should be such a warning. When I test this, I do get a warning
like this:
2004-11-10 11:19:29 Exim configuration error:
there are two transports called "address_reply"
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