Viktor Dukhovni:
> It might alternatively make sense to allow escaping via "\{", "\}"
> and "\\", and to signal the pcre/regexp drivers to apply such
> escapes to interpolated strings.

Postfix does not support backslash escapes. Introducing that now
would be too disruptive. Introducing them only for special cases
would cause more problems than they solve. I fight against special
cases and for orthogonality.

> > (Of course nothing in Postfix can protect against accidents caused
> > by text manipulations inside a policy daemon; they would have to
> > censor themselves, or Postfix would need an option to disable {}
> > support for policy filter replies).
> 
> As for policy tables, it might be better to support multiple "action"
> values in a single reply, though I understand that this may be
> difficult to support in the current "attr_client" API, can
> "ATTR_TYPE_FUNC" deal with repeated instances of the same attribute?

Sorry, it must be the same interface as access tables. Special
cases are taboo.

        Wietse

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