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