On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> I think we can handle these extensions to the current RBL handling with
> a few (backward compatible) changes. The current format of rbl_domains
> is a colon separated list of rbl domain entries, where each rbl domain
> consists of a domain optionally followed by /warn or /reject:-
>
> RBL_DOMAINS = RBLDOM [ : RBL_DOMAINS ]
> RBLDOM = domain [ /warn | /reject ]
>
> I'd like to change this to
>
> RBLDOM = domain [ = ipaddr[,ipaddr...] ] [ /warn | /reject | /accept ]
Looks good to me. I have added an item to the wish list.
> /warn - accept the recipients, but add a warning header to
> the message. Further rbl_domains entries are also
> processed***
>
> *** This is the current exim implementation. I am wondering if this is
> worth doing or whether we just say first hit wins, no more rbl_domains
> are processed whether its /warn, /accept or /reject.
It used to be like that, but I was asked to change it so that you could
get multiple warnings ("this host is in both ORBS and RBL"). I suppose
one could implement /warnend to give the other behaviour, but I am not
sure that it is worth it.
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