On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
> > > Can you preserve a state from the MAIL FROM acl to the RCPT TO acl?
> >
> >For the testable things that I had in mind, one can postpone testing
> >them until the RCPT TO phase: it isn't necessary to perform the tests
> >at the first possible moment and then need to remember the result.
> >If you see what I mean.
>
> I was actually more interested in some state that can be preserved
> during the whole transaction, so that one could have a sort of
> scoring or conditional system without having to write (and run) a
> multitude of complex acls.
Well, after thinking twice about this, you CAN preserve states between
ACLs, but it needs some work :)
1.) The easy way:
Use embedded perl, to set and retrieve the states
2.) The more complex one:
Use an external daemon, that listens to a unix-socket and use
readsocket to save and retrieve the state.
> Probably Philip will not read this far... but I would really like to
> have counters or string variables (just a handful).
Well, I've the feeling that Phil reads most of the mails till the end.
ciao