On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 17:15, Dennis Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > From: Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]> > > To: exim users <[email protected]> > > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:59:30 > > Subject: [exim] Bug or Design? Transport name cannot begin with number > > > > I am running Exim 4.77 on FreeBSD 8.x > > > > I decided to create a special purpose transport, viz: > > > > 587_remote_smtp: > > driver = smtp > > port = 587 > > > > It appears that Exim doesn't like it: > > > > gw# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim restart > > Stopping exim. > > Starting exim. > > 2012-03-14 15:45:49 Exim configuration error in line 1385 of > > /usr/local/etc/exim/configure: > > option setting expected: 587_remote_smtp: > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim: WARNING: failed to start exim > > > > This behaviour is reproduceable as long as you start a transport > > name with a digit. > > > > However, if I a transport name begins with an alphabet character > > instead of a numeral, then Exim is okay with it. > > > > Is this by design?? I couldn't find anything in spec.txt that > > clarifies this behaviour. > > See: > > > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch06.html#SECTfordricon > > which states: > > Driver instance names, which are used for reference in log > entries and elsewhere, can be any sequence of letters, digits, > and underscores (starting with a letter) and must be unique among > drivers of the same type. A router and a transport (for example) can > each have the same name, but no two router instances can have the > same name. > > Hi Dennis, Excuse my level of understanding, but I still do not see anything in that text that forbids the scenario I presented. Could you please underline or bolden it? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
