On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 12:33:32PM +0200, joy wrote:
> Upon switching to maildrop 2.x on a production system with a more complex
> setup than the one where I usually tested the package, I noticed several
> problems:
>
> * the switch to PCRE introduced the normal regular expression syntax which
> is a worthy goal, but unfortunately that also means that:
>
> * it voided the old pattern->variable syntax, where /first!second!third/
> would create variables $MATCH1=first, $MATCH2=second and $MATCH3=third.
> This one's easy to fix, you just have to replace all your !s with
> parenthesis marks in the right places, and re-count your matches
> (since there is no more implicit matching of the part up to the first !)
FWIW, this item is documented in the maildroprc(5) manual page, section
"CONVERSION OF MAILDROP 1.X PATTERNS TO 2.0".
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