Re: [Exim] Upgrading RBL settings from v3 to v4

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Author: Rick Byers
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Upgrading RBL settings from v3 to v4
Whoops, I'm stupid. recipients_reject_except wasn't specific to the RBL
checks in v3 - so I guess the behaviour was identical (although not the
behaviour I really wanted). The ACL system sure is flexible, I'm glad I
can get the behaviour I really wanted now.

Incase anyone else is curious, I'm just creating a new ACL and using the
"require acl = rbl_acl" to chain it (I haven't tested it yet, but it
should work).

 Thanks,
    Rick


On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Rick Byers wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:22:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Rick Byers <rb-exim@???>
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: [Exim] Upgrading RBL settings from v3 to v4
>
> Hi,
> Under version 3, I used:
>
> rbl_domains = <blacklists>
> rbl_hosts = !<host-exceptions>
> recipients_reject_except = <opt-out-recipients>
> recipients_reject_except_senders = <sender-exceptions>
>
> The conversion script converted this to ACL rules like:
>
> accept recipients = <opt-out-recipients>
> accept senders = <senders-exceptions>
> deny hosts = !<host-exceptions>
>     dnslists = <blacklists>

>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't quite the same thing. Since the
> ACL ties the RBL checking in with all the other checking, my rules aren't
> quite as strict. For example, just because I want to allow a sender from
> <sender-exceptions> to bypass the RBL check doesn't mean I want to bypass
> the relay check (why I'd want any sender-exceptions in the first place is
> another issue - but I won't get into that).
>
> How can I get the original behaviour in exim 4? Can ACLs be chained?
> Maybe I need to create an RBL-specific ACL and then call it from my main
> rcpt ACL so that the main ACL will fail if the RBL acl fails, but the main
> ACL will continue processing of the RBL acl passes.
>
> Thanks,
>     Rick

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