Autor: Peter Bowyer Datum: To: exim-dev Betreff: Re: [exim-dev] [exim] Newline-separated lists
On 20/02/07, Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@???> wrote: > I'd like to suggest a modification of string_nextinlist() to make it possible
> to use certain control characters as list separators (as you probably know, a
> less-than followed by any punctuation characters in the beginning of most
> lists tell Exim that said punctuation character is the list separator).
>
> The simplest syntax would be if "<n" meant that newline (\n) is the separator
> and "<t" meant tab (\t). "<s" for space might also be useful (or simply "< ",
> which doesn't work today since space isn't considered a punctuation
> character). Would this be likely to break existing configurations?
>
I support that - it would remove the need for ugly 'sg'-ing of lists
derived from (for example) MySQL queries. I guess there's a chance it
might break a config that uses a literal 'n' as a separator, since
it's a valid thing to do...
