Re: [exim] strange problem with smarthosts

Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
>
> > You can do just about anything with Exim, maybe not wash the dishes
> > though. Use '$h_from:' in the lookup, but YMMV: there's lots of
> > other stuff appart from an email address that can appear in the
> > From: header. Check out the string expansion fucntions in the
> > manual an how to extract the bits of interest to you.
>
> And note that it is valid for the From: line to contain more than one
> address, though in practice this is very rare.

Yes, I nearly wrote "here be dragons" in place of YMMV. Lucky for
him, it's his "dumb" host, so he can make some assumptions about
the input data if it's combined with the recieving host in the test.

Ian

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