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Author: Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Date:  
To: Marc Haber
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] How to allow delimiter characters in delimited strings?
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 17:47 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> The file is hand-edited by the end user, and I'd like to avoid having
> directions like this in the end-user docs. It would be great to have
> something like ${extract{2:999}{:}, giving out fields 2 to 999 of the
> string.


I suggest you simply base64 encode the values, and add a small
eximpasswd script to edit the file. some people may even stumble over
the solution of how to add client authentication by pressing exim TAB
TAB.

(BTW, colon in usernames is very unusual, since it's the delimiter
in /etc/passwd)
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Kjetil T.