Re: [exim] Host Pattern Matching

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Author: Andreas Pettersson
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To: Marc Perkel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Host Pattern Matching
Marc Perkel wrote:
> can I do pattern matching on hosts like:
>
> hosts = *.yahoo.*
>
> The docs are a little fuzzy on this.
>


It looks pretty clear to me, if I'm not mistaken.
"If a pattern starts with “*” the remainder of the item must match the
end of the host name." ... "Other kinds of wildcarding require the use
of a regular expression."
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch10.html#SECThoslispatnam

So the answer is to use a regexp instead.
hosts = ^.*\.yahoo\.

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Andreas