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Subject: [exim-dev] [Bug 459] Generic variable containing the item looked for in a (query-style) lookup
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http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=459





------- Comment #5 from ph10@??? 2007-02-01 11:12 -------
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, holmgren@??? wrote:

> Changing eval_condition() so that it parses the second argument without
> expanding it is not incompatible in and of itself, but there is still a massive
> catch 22 which may require incompatible changes (for example that the list is
> split before expansion or that it is expanded twice - yuck).


Indeed, and consider the case where people use a lookup to obtain a
list:

local_parts = <some lookup that involved $domain>

This does not seem unreasonable: the local parts that are acceptable are
dependent on the domain.

I really, really, don't fancy tampering with this area. :-)

Philip

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