Re: [exim] Available recipient variable in DATA ACL

[Mike Cardwell]

On 26/02/2010 19:59, Jeremy Harris wrote:

>> During the data phase, $recipients contains a comma separated list of
>> all the recipients. If you wanted to do an INSERT into an SQL database
>> at that point for each individual recipient, you could use a stored
>> function and loop over each address via the comma delimiter inside that
>> function. Another alternative would be to copy $recipients into an acl
>> variable and then use a recursive acl which pops off the top address,
>> inserts, and then calls it's self. As long as you take into account
>> recursion limits.
> 
> If you can write your SQL as a one-liner exim expansion, you can
> walk a list with (e.g.)  ${filter  {}{}}
> 
> Recursion not needed.

I always forget about those "new" functions. That would be a nicer
solution yes.

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