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Marc Perkel wrote:
> OK - I want to throw out a proposal to make a major change to Exim - the
> scripting language. And before you all start screaming - the idea would
> be to leave the existing language in for compatibility.
>
> Why do this? because the scripting is not intuitive. I've been using
> this language for 4 years and I still don't get it - and I've written
> compilers and invented programming languages.
>
> Suppose I wanted to test to see if a header does not exist.
>
> condition = !def:h_X-Mail-from:
>
> or better:
>
> condition = not header_exists X-Mail-from:
>
> or this type of scripting should work:
>
> condition = $h_X-Mail-from: = ""
>
> It takes me hours to do what should take seconds. Of course when I moved
> from sendmail to Exim I though I died and went to heaven. But now - not
> quite heaven.
>
> Other Examples:
>
> condition = "${if and { \
> {!eq {$interface_address}{127.0.0.1}} \
> {!def:h_X-Spam-Status:} \
> {!def:h_X-Mailman-host:} \
> {!eq {$received_protocol}{ctyme-spam-scanned}} \
> {!eq {$received_protocol}{local}} \
> } {1}{0}}"
>
> Should be:
>
> condition = ($interface_address = 127.0.0.1) and
> (not header_exists(X-Spam-Status)) and
> (not header_exists(X-Mailman-host)) and
> ($received_protocol <> ctyme-spam-scanned) and
> ($received_protocol <> local)
>
> It needs to read easy - be intuitive.
Hmm, why not just rip it all out and replace it with perl instead =)
I had thought about redoing the acl section to be more of a programming
language ala C--
(I heard of C-- some time ago which was a scriptish C without the need to
declare variables)
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