This is returning an error:
R=listserv T=listserv_transport defer (0) DT=0s: Expansion of "${lookup
{$local_part}.list dsearch, ret=key,filter=file {/opt/lsoft/listserv/home}
{${sg {$value}{.txt$}{}}}fail}" from command
"/opt/lsoft/listserv/bin/lsv_amin /opt/lsoft/listserv/spool "${lookup
{$local_part}.list dsearch, ret=key,filter=file {/opt/lsoft/listserv/home}
{${sg {$value}{\.txt$}{}}}fail}"" in listserv_transport transport failed:
missing lookup type
On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2025/12/11 8:56 PM, Johnnie Adams via Exim-users wrote:
> > Is it possible to write a lookup for an [email protected] and
> > untaint the local part depending on a file foo.txt existing in a given
> > directory?
>
> You're making life difficult with that ".txt" element,
>
> Assuming you want this in a router,
> something along the lines of
>
> address_data = ${lookup {${local_part}.txt} \
> dsearch,ret=key,filter=file \
> {GIVEN_DIRECTORY} \
> {${sg {$value}{\.txt\$}{}}} \
> fail \
> }
>
> with the verified value arriving in $address_data ?
>
>
> Note that the address_data option is evaluated after the rest of the
> router preconditions, so you can't use it's result in the local_part
> option. So that "fail" is needed, to do the work of the local_part
> option test.
> --
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
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