Re: [exim] Rewriting address phrases

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Author: Ian Cameron
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To: Drav Sloan
CC: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [exim] Rewriting address phrases
Hi,

Drav Sloan said:
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch31.html
>
> Section 10. Flags controlling the rewriting process
>
> When an address in a header is rewritten, the rewriting normally applies
> only to the working part of the address, with any comments and RFC 2822
> phrase left unchanged. For example, rewriting might change
>
> From: Ford Prefect <fp42@???>
>
> into
>
> From: Ford Prefect <prefectf@???>
>
> Sometimes there is a need to replace the whole address item, and this
> can be done by adding the flag letter w to a rule.


I've looked at the 'w' flag before. It seems that the phrase is not passed to
the matching rule when it's used, but the rewritten address overwrites the
original phrase/address combination, thus allowing you to generate a phrase,
but not one based on the original. That's the way it seems to me, at least.
The phrase might be available in a $rheader_.*: expansion though?

I think fixing nmh is going to be the answer here, now. Even if I can get
to the phrase via a $rheader_.*: expansion, looping through them to test/fix
each phrase is probably going to be tricky to get right and is probably more
easily fixed in the nmh code (where it should be done anyway, I guess).

Thanks for your message.

--
Cheers, Ian.



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