Autor: michael Fecha: A: ph10 Cc: exim-users Asunto: Re: [Exim] Just a warning to those who use host lists for relay control
> I'm unhappy about making too many different cases. If you had >
> host_accept = !*.b.c
>
> and it was working fine, and you changed it to
>
> host_accept = a.b.c : !*.b.c
>
> you'd get a subtle change of effect. Likewise if you went from the
> second to the first, you'd get an effect not unlike the one that trapped
> you and started this thread.
You are right. It's confusing.
> However, I'm not totally inflexible. If enough people think it would be
> good idea, I might be persuaded to change the rules so that if a host is
> not in the list at all, it is *never* accepted. This is an uncomplicated
> rule. It would mean that a negative item as the last item in a list
> would have no effect.
I would prefer that. Right now I use 127.0.0.1 as the last item to be
sure never again to have a negated last element.
