Author: Jeff Dairiki Date: To: Jeremy Harris CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Is it possible to quote/escape leading + on a list item?
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 04:27:59PM +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote: > On 04/05/2013 05:41 PM, Jeff Dairiki wrote:
> > local_parts = $original_local_part
> >
> >on some routers. If $original_local_part begins with a '+', this
> >results in an "unknown name local part list" fatal error. Is there
> >any way around this, short of moving the test into a condition test?
> >(I have to support older exims (4.72) which do not support multiple
> >condition lines in a single router. Moving the test to the condition
> >make for some hard to read compound condition clauses.)
>
> You've spotted the obvious way. The only other one that comes to
> mind is playing with local_part_prefix and ~optional.
Thanks for the reply!
I find it surprising that there is no way to include an item in a list
if it begins with a '+'. I was sure there must be some sort of
escaping/quoting mechanism which I had overlooked.
