Exim really should have a "from_address" command then. Really - does
this have to be that hard? I can't be the first one who tried to extract
the email address from the From header without using perl. Or is there
some easy trick I'm missing?
Richard Clayton wrote:
>>In message <43C1354E.3010304@???>, Marc Perkel <marc@???>
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>>OK - this can't be that hard but how do you extrace the email address
>>part from the $h_From: header?
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>I'd recommend Perl... this is non-trivial
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>>Shouldn't this work? ${local_part:$h_From:}@${domain:$h_From:}
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>>What am I missing?
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>you appear to be assuming that there can be no "@" in the local part and
>that there are no comments :-( [and doubtless more nits as well]
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>RFC(2)822 parsers are far from simple... hence my recommendation of
>finding an existing one and calling it from Perl
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>of course you may be happy with a bodge and some hand-waving assumptions
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>richard Richard Clayton
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>Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755
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