On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
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> > (122) 24-Dec-02 M Communication between ACLs
> > A way of preserving data between connect/HELO/MAIL/RCPT/DATA acls.
> > Numeric or named variables?
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> >
> > Maybe I should try to give that some priority...
>
> Sounds like this could be seen as a step towards passing bigger and
> bigger parts of the mail service outside of exim.
No, that's not the aim. This is all within a single SMTP connection. For
example, we already preserve $sender_host_address and $sender_address
from one ACL to another. This would just add a few variables where
user-specified data could be stored.
> I'm a little afraid that some of the external programs wish to do
> things in ways which don't match the exim philosophy (in particular
> the suggestion of preserving info between exim processes).
>
> Please don't allow this to change the way that exim works.
I wasn't intending to.
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