Or even full expansion options - which puts huge power into the aliases file:
data = ${expand:${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/aliases}}}
Hope this is useful!
Merlin
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United Kingdom
> On 13 Feb 2018, at 09:38, Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
>
> Hardy via Exim-users <exim-users@???> (Di 13 Feb 2018 09:44:38 CET):
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> my aim is to have something in the way of
>>
>> myname.*: myname
>>
>> for the local user myname, if this is possible to do in the alias file. I
>> would rather like to have it here than to change the conf. Possible?
>
> You need to modify the config anyway, to allow for patterns in your
> alias file.
>
>
> data = ${lookup{$local_part}nwildlsearch{/etc/aliases}}
>
> With entries like:
>
> hans: literal
> hans*: literal
> *hans: pattern
> ^hans: regexp
>
>
> Best regards from Dresden/Germany
> Viele Grüße aus Dresden
> Heiko Schlittermann
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