Re: [exim] how exim parses multiple headers into variables

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] how exim parses multiple headers into variables
On Fri, 1 May 2015 21:38:31 +0200, Heiko Schlittermann
<hs@???> wrote:
>Seing this, there is no bug in Exim. Exim does just what you told it to
>do. As indicated by the filter test output.


I see. It's still clumsy behavior that the output of $h_header_foo
cannot be inserted into another header without jumping through hoops.

>Using 'headers add "x-torres-spam-score: $h_x-spam-score"' IS wrong.


yes. that violates the principle of least surprise.

>For that reason I proposed the solution using reduce{}, that does
>basically the same as the sg{} solution from Marc. Both may be
>considered ugly, but the reduce{} at least treats the $h_x-spam-score
>as what it is - a '\n' delimted LIST of header values.


Yes, that sounds elegant indeed.

Greetings
Marc
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