On 2011-03-30 Corey Quinn wrote: > On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Noel Jones wrote: >> # main.cf >> smtp_generic_maps = >> regexp:/etc/postfix/generic.regexp >> >> # generic.regexp >> IF /+.*@example\.com$/ >> /^(.*)+/ $1...@example.com >> ENDIF > > Threw this verbatim into my generic.regexp: > > [root@mx1 postfix]# postmap -q "user+t...@example.com" regexp:generic.regexp > postmap: warning: regexp map generic.regexp, line 1: Invalid preceding > regular expression > postmap: warning: regexp map generic.regexp, line 4: ignoring ENDIF without > matching IF > user+t...@example.com@example.com > > On the plus side, I figured out how to do something interesting by > reading through the regexp documentation-- this solved another > challenge I'd been facing.
'+' has a special meaning in regular expressions (one or more times the preceding term), so you need to escape it to match a literal '+': if /\+.*@example\.com$/ /^(.*)\+/ $1...@example.com endif Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning." --Joel Spolsky
