Author: Kevin P. Fleming Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] lookups in ACLs
William Thompson wrote: > of course, if these are checked in sequence, then I should move sender_domains
> above the condition. In this particular one, the $value is either 'yes' or
> 'no' (that field is an enum).
Yes, the conditions in an ACL entry are checked in sequence, so you should
always put the "most deterministic" entries first. Exim also does short-circuit
evaluation I believe, so if the first entry produces a failure, the subsequent
lookups won't even be performed.