Bug#653750: Need to prefix a host list definition with the hostlist keyword

[Regid Ichira]

--- On Tue, 1/10/12, Adam D. Barratt <adam, adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 14:18 -0800, Regid Ichira wrote:
> > host_reject_connection is a deprecated configuration item
> > I think that without the following patch it would not work as
> > described.  I also think this is not the only place in which
> > spec.txt attempts to define a typed list without specifying 
> > the type.
> 
> It's not a typed list.  As you said yourself, it's a
> configuration item - one whose /value/ is a list.

 Thank you.  You are right.

> I'm not actually sure if exim will let you do what your patch
> suggests (define a list with the same name as a configuration
> item) but it certainly seems like it would be confusing.
> 

  I think it does let me define my own 
hostlist host_reject_connection.  And it does not use its value
for the configuration item with the same name.  Indeed, this is
confusing.