Re: [exim] PCRE virtual addresses

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Author: Phil Pennock
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] PCRE virtual addresses
On 2015-02-26 at 08:01 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
> I'm not sure that I've ever seen a paid Exim consultant. :)


https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/Commercial

> The great thing about farming decisions out to Perl, is that this is where
> PCRE came from. ;)


No, PCRE comes from Exim, designed and written by Phil Hazel for Exim
but then split off into a separate package and picked up by many other
products. It's designed to mostly emulate how Perl handles regular
expressions, warts and all.

Will think on OP's request and cover that in a separate mail.

-Phil