April 8, 2020 6:15 PM, "Joerg Jung" <m...@umaxx.net> wrote:
>> On 8. Apr 2020, at 17:19, Eric Faurot <e...@faurot.net> wrote: >> >> Some users had issues with report events for MAIL FROM and RCPT TO >> when "|" appear in the mail address (yes, it seems to happen), because >> that's also the field separator. To make parsing the report lines a >> bit more straightforward, it's better to put the address as the last >> field. > > While this obviously would fix things, I wonder if there is a better choice > for > the separator available, to avoid similar issues in future. > Something that does not show up in hostnames, mail from, rcpt to, or > anything else SMTP (filter) protocol related. > Maybe better use ‘$' or even a control character like RS/US record/unit > separator (ASCII no 29/30)? > I don't know, having a printable character eases reading event log with std tools, the problem is really that user-supplied parameters to verbs are always last on an event except for tx-mail and tx-rcpt so we cannot use the same logic as with data-line.
