On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> ${if match_address {$h_From:}{+something}} instead of ${if match_address
> {${address:$h_From:}}{+something}}. Less typing :-)
But strictly invalid, of course, since From: is allowed to contain more
than one address. :-)
> Unless address_list does extract the effective addresses instead of
> merely converting the commas and doubling the nonseparating colons.
> But in that case I find the name "addresses" appropriate, for it does
> exactly the same thing as ${address:}, but in plural.
Maybe that is the best way forward here. It is a nice clean spec. Your
example above then becomes
${if forany{${addresses:$h_from:}}{match_address{$item}{+something}}
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