Re: [Exim] Planning for Exim 4

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Andromeda
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Planning for Exim 4
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Andromeda wrote:

> I guess it makes your job harder in having to parse and optimize those
> instructions, but looking at the syntax it is not that much more difficult.
> In that light I think it would be best if users of Exim (administrators)
> were to list all ACCEPTs first, and then the DENY's?


I don't think that works, because it doesn't give you full generality.
You need to be able to process a list of ACCEPTs and DENYs in order.

Has anybody spotted the bug in the example I posted yet? (Hint: its
solution in ACL format relates to the above paragraph.)

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