Re: Bug#276126: [exim] allow headers_remove|add options to b…

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: Bug#276126: [exim] allow headers_remove|add options to be givenmultiple times
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:30:19 +0000 (GMT), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
>Or write a program/script to generate a configuration file that Exim
>likes from your own format configuration file.


We already do that in a very limited way and get our fair share of
flamage from the exim community.

>It would be easy enough
>to write a Perl script that reads a pseudo-configuration and combines
>multiple settings of headers_add, for example.


That one would have to be quite flexible, possibly re-implementing big
parts of exim's configuration file parser. Which is IMO a bad idea.

>Indeed. Even wishlist items that never get implemented are sometimes
>useful, because they stimulate thoughts about the problems, and may
>cause a different solution to emerge.


Good.

Greetings
Marc

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