Re: [exim] ${address: foo(comment)@bar.org}

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Author: Mike Brudenell
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To: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [exim] ${address: foo(comment)@bar.org}
>
> But you're not dealing with a From: header. You're only doing
> a ${address:foo} expansion with a literal string for foo,
> in this test. And "foo" gets string-processed, which means
> backslash-interpretation for escaping.
>


Doh! I've got it now. So if it had instead been ${address:$h_from:} (syntax
probably wrong, but you get my drift) then it would have worked even though
the $h_from: contained only a single \ in its value.

Thanks for the explanation!

Cheers,
Mike B-)

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