Re: [Exim] Policy controls for local input

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Author: Alexander Sabourenkov
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Policy controls for local input
Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.


Sorry for being extraordinarily stupid. It seems I slept through yesterday.

>>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.
>


Thank you. Thank you very much.

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