As it turns out, that ran--thanks! Now it's the lookup that's failing...or
was, till I changed it to dbm rather than dbmnz. I think this is done, once
I stir the other half of the eq statement back in.
Thanks to all who helped--it was very useful!
On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM Adam D. Barratt via Exim-users <
exim-users@lists.exim.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-04-22 at 15:28 -0500, Johnnie Adams via Exim-users wrote:
> > I've thinned this configuration down to the minimal failure:
>
> [...]
> > server_condition = ${if \
> >
> >
> > eq{lookup{$auth1}dbmnz{/etc/exim/allowed_accounts.db}}{quote:$auth2}
> > \
> >
> > }
> >
> > And I'm getting this error message in debug mode, which strikes me as
> > strange, because I do have two strings in the eq{} clause:
> >
> > login authenticator failed for (remote) [144.167.8.28]: 435 Unable to
> > authenticate at present (set_id=account): missing 2nd string in {}
> > after "eq"
>
> You're comparing literal strings, not the result of operations.
>
> server_condition = ${if eq \
> {${lookup{$auth1}dbmnz{/etc/exim/allowed_accounts.db}}} \
> {${quote:$auth2}} \
> }
>
> is at least more plausible syntax-wise.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam
>
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