On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 16:43 +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> > On 6 Jan 2016, at 16:14, Always Learning <exim@???> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 17:26 +0200, Lena@??? wrote:
> >
> >
> >> deny message = This message has too many header lines (>512)
> >> condition = ${if match{$message_headers}{\N(\S.+\n(\s.+\n)*){512}\N}}
> >
> > Is this a match for *exactly* 512 headers ?
>
> I don’t think it is:
> ${if match{$message_headers}
> {\N(\S.+\n(\s.+\n)*){512}\N}
> }
>
> It’s looking for 512 of these: \S.+\n(\s.+\n)* in $message_headers. It’ll match any string with 512 or more of them. Those things are one line starting with a non-space (\S), followed by zero or more lines starting with a space (\s).
I had thought the third {} (now '{512}') was the first of the 'yes match
found' 'no match found' Boolean matching result pair. It seems the third
{} is actually an accumulator of successful matches.
Thank you.
--
Regards,
Paul.
England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.
