On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Alexander Sabourenkov wrote:
> > In summary:
> >
> > 1. The SMTP ACLs are used for -bs and SMTP over TCP/IP.
> > 2. The acl_not_smtp ACL is used for -bS and -bm.
>
> Aha. But are the interactive SMTP ACLs run in case of -bs option?
Yes. That's what I meant in (1) above. The ACLs for MAIL, RCPT, and DATA
are run for every SMTP connection, local or remote. By "SMTP" I mean
interactive SMTP, with command-response handling. I do not include
BSMTP. That isn't SMTP - it is just a convenient use of SMTP syntax to
pass an envelope non-interactively.
> Does 'hosts = :' still evaluate true when STDIN is not an inet socket?
hosts = : matches only when the SMTP input is not a TCP/IP connection,
that is, it matches only when there is no remote IP address.
That isn't strictly true. If you run something like
exim -bs -oMa 1.2.3.4
(as a trusted user), then the the host IP address is set to 1.2.3.4 and
hosts=: won't match. But that is not the usual situation.
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