Re: [Exim] ACL's RULE!

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Auteur: Juha Saarinen
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Aan: Dave C.
CC: exim-users@exim.org
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] ACL's RULE!
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Dave C. wrote:

> I just have an unconditional accept at the end in mine after all the
> deny items.
>
> Here is a short sweet summary:
>
> exim processes the items listed in an ACL in order.
>
>  deny :
>    if all items are true, stop acl processing, return deny
>    if any item is false, continue

>
>  require :
>    if all items are true, continue to next item
>    if any item is false, stop processing, return deny

>
>  accept :
>    if all items are true, stop acl processing, return accept

>
>  warn
>    if all items are true, add "message" as a header, continue to next item

>
>
> If the end of the acl is reached without a satisfied accept, the default
> is to deny
>
> Require and deny do almost the same thing, with the logic inverted.
>
> Read section 37 of the specfile for more detail.


Thanks Dave. I wasn't sure if the ACL verbs had to be in a specific order,
ie. accept before deny etc. ;-)


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Juha Saarinen