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Is this likely to be implemented?
A variable containing user-specified data set in the RCPT ACL and then
used in a condition in the DATA ACL would be very useful.
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 09:56 am, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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...
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>> Sounds like this could be seen as a step towards passing bigger and
>> bigger parts of the mail service outside of exim.
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> 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.
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>> 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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