[Pkg-exim4-users] Wildcards/Regexps in?/etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist

[Andreas Metzler]

Sebastian Tennant <sebyte at smolny.plus.com> wrote:
> A quick Debian specific (?) question which I've been unable to answer
> for myself.  Neither the README.Debian.gz, nor the exim4-config_files
> man page make any mention of it.

>  Can wildcards/regexps be used in the /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist
>  file (or other such files)?

Yes, they can. They are (part of) regular exim lists, either a "host
list" (e.g.  local_host_blacklist) or address list (e.g.
local_sender_blacklist)

wilcards in address lists:
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.68/doc/html/spec_html/ch10.html#SECTaddresslist
wildcards in host lists:
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.68/doc/html/spec_html/ch10.html#SECThostlist

cu andreas
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