On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 17:15, Dennis Davis <D.H.Davis@???> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> > From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@???>
> > To: exim users <exim-users@???>
> > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:59:30
> > Subject: [exim] Bug or Design? Transport name cannot begin with number
> >
> > I am running Exim 4.77 on FreeBSD 8.x
> >
> > I decided to create a special purpose transport, viz:
> >
> > 587_remote_smtp:
> > driver = smtp
> > port = 587
> >
> > It appears that Exim doesn't like it:
> >
> > gw# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim restart
> > Stopping exim.
> > Starting exim.
> > 2012-03-14 15:45:49 Exim configuration error in line 1385 of
> > /usr/local/etc/exim/configure:
> > option setting expected: 587_remote_smtp:
> > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim: WARNING: failed to start exim
> >
> > This behaviour is reproduceable as long as you start a transport
> > name with a digit.
> >
> > However, if I a transport name begins with an alphabet character
> > instead of a numeral, then Exim is okay with it.
> >
> > Is this by design?? I couldn't find anything in spec.txt that
> > clarifies this behaviour.
>
> See:
>
>
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch06.html#SECTfordricon
>
> which states:
>
> Driver instance names, which are used for reference in log
> entries and elsewhere, can be any sequence of letters, digits,
> and underscores (starting with a letter) and must be unique among
> drivers of the same type. A router and a transport (for example) can
> each have the same name, but no two router instances can have the
> same name.
>
>
Hi Dennis,
Excuse my level of understanding, but I still do not see anything in that
text that forbids the scenario I presented.
Could you please underline or bolden it?
--
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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