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authorPhilip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>2007-02-14 15:33:40 +0000
committerPhilip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>2007-02-14 15:33:40 +0000
commitc361138493e8f0f5d6f7d66d362737d92dba1269 (patch)
tree2dd1ff51d508b0e75c32cc65dae4e801b600f655 /doc/doc-txt
parent29f89cad0cf7be1977f6ed36d27ac9b651aec9e2 (diff)
Add "continue" modifier.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/doc-txt')
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/NewStuff14
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index 61b6ac275..1d894c339 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.479 2007/02/14 14:59:01 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.480 2007/02/14 15:33:40 ph10 Exp $
Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
+PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
+ expansion side effects.
+
Exim version 4.66
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diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
index b70fa5e68..677ab21aa 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.141 2007/02/14 14:59:01 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.142 2007/02/14 15:33:40 ph10 Exp $
New Features in Exim
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@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ Version 4.67
option; with -I they don't. In both cases it is possible to change the case
sensitivity within the pattern using (?i) or (?-i).
-14. A number of new features have been added to string expansions to make it
+16. A number of new features have been added to string expansions to make it
easier to process lists of items, typically addresses. These are as
follows:
@@ -365,6 +365,16 @@ Version 4.67
At the end of a ${reduce expansion, the values of $item and $value is
restored to what they were before.
+17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
+ and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
+ modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
+ can be used. Typically this would be for updating a database. It is really
+ just a syntactic tidiness, because the following two lines have the same
+ effect:
+
+ continue = <some expansion>
+ condition = ${if eq{0}{<some expansion>}{true}{true}}
+
Version 4.66
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