Author: Jeremy Harris Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Counting how many addresses a redirect router generates?
On 02/11/16 16:42, Chris Siebenmann wrote: > We have a mail system facility where we allow users to place files in
> a special 'lists' directory > We have recently wound up wanting to be able to tell the difference
> between the two sorts of 'mailing lists', so we can treat email passing
> through them somewhat differently. So, is there any good way to do
> something like count the number of addresses generated from a redirect
> expansion? Alternately, can people think of clever other ways to do this?
You didn't say what format the files are.
Read the file, feed it to ${listcount } (recent Exim; mind the choice
of list-sep)
or just look for a separator with ${sg }
