On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:26:38PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At the end of all this research, I STILL find myself trying to
> diagnose why my router isn't working; and it's a pretty darn simple
> router at that. getting useful error messages out of exim debug is
> worthless.
>
> So I thought, if I can run a simulation of whatever exim does, maybe I
> could stop in the middle & see just what's going on.
>
> I thought my question was very specific.
> What language is the exim conf file written for?
> is it perl, or is it an exim-specific language.
>
> ie: the command line [from my router] is:
> data = [EMAIL PROTECTED]/etc/exim4/email-accept}
> {:fail: User unknown }}
>
> what interpreter can I execute this line of code in to see what the
> heck it's doing?
> I can't lookup the proper syntax of the lookup command if I don't know
> the language it's based in.
>
> Here is what exim -debug says:
> lookup yielded: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: << this IS a valid email, and
> lsearch FOUND it. so far so good.
> expanded: :fail: User unknown << WHY does my statement expand
> to failure
> file is not a filter file << what file isn't a
> filter file, and what does that really mean?one of my lookups that has a fail in it has no colons (:) around it and the fail is not in its own set of braces. try it like this: data = [EMAIL PROTECTED]/etc/exim4/email-accept}fail}} taking out the User unknown part. Don't ask me why... A
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