We’re moving an existing Exim 4.72 installation from Debian Squeeze to Ubuntu 14.04 (Ubuntu 14.04 comes with Exim 4.82).

Starting with Exim 4.77, a match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default. However, Exim provides a new compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.

EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS is one of the reasons we are going to compile from source. Continue reading →