Hello,
Philip, I hope you forgive me my perseverance. I guess you didn't understand
me to the end. Maybe my terrible English is the problem... :-\
Please give me one more chance! I'll try to explain below.
I know that *_data variables is used when a match in a host list in an ACL
happens as a result of a lookup. But in some cases (where lookups are
needless and lists are used) it would be great to get in some variable the
item from the list that was matched. As I now at this moment there is
no such variable in exim.
So, may I make a small feature request? Is it possible to introduce such
expansion variable in exim? I guess it will be very useful for some users
of exim.
Thanks for your patience and help!
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:30:58AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Alexander Shikoff wrote:
>
> > Philip, I hope my next question is not vastly dumb: why not use $host_data
> > (and other $..._data variables) to store result of matching against a?lists too?
>
> The $host_data variable is used when a match in a host list in an ACL
> happens as a result of a lookup. The data that was retrieved as part of
> the lookup is placed in $host_data. It does *not* contain the item from
> the list that was matched. Example:
>
> hosts = net-lsearch;/some/file
>
> If the file contained:
>
> 10.0.0.1: this-is-data
>
> then when "hosts" has matched 10.0.0.1, $host_data contains
> "this-is-data". There is no variable that contains
> "net-lsearch;/some/file".
>
> > In example above: when matching 10.10.10.1 against hostlist succeeds it is
> > possible to store correspondent element of list in $host_data variable.
>
> If $host_data were extended to apply to ${if match_host then it should
> be the same as it is in an ACL, so no, it couldn't be the element of the
> list that matched.
>
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