Re: [exim] Host Pattern Matching

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Andreas Pettersson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Host Pattern Matching
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Andreas Pettersson wrote:

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


That's not quite right. Try either of these

hosts = \N^.*\.yahoo\.\N
hosts = \N^.*?\.yahoo\.\N

The second is a bit more efficient when it matches (about the same when
it doesn't).

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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