Re: [Exim] Exiscan order of things

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Author: Ron McKeating
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To: Tim Jackson
CC: Exim-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exiscan order of things
Hi thanks for this but I have an older version of exim, we are upgrading
but not gone to the new servers yet. Can anybody tell me the default
order in the older version of exiscan.

Ron
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:51, Tim Jackson wrote:
> Hi Ron, on 01 Sep 2003 13:31:07 +0100 you wrote:
>
> > I was wondering about the order exiscan does things in. I want it to do
> > the extension check before the av check so I do not waste resource av
> > checking an extension with a .pif.
>
> If you use Exim 4.20+ with Exiscan-ACL, you can specify the order because
> it's just based on ACL statements - therefore you can put them in the
> order you want. I haven't looked closely at the code that hooks Exiscan
> into Exim's ACLs but I assume that if a "deny" occurs at any early stage,
> the rest of the ACL is short-circuited, thus giving the effect you want.
>
> > Also what error message does exiscan give when it bounces these.
>
> I can't remember offhand but if you check the Exiscan code it's fairly
> obvious.
>
> With Exiscan-ACL, you can change the message to whatever you like for the
> various kinds of rejection (virus, spam, bad extension etc.) by use of
> "message = " in the ACL section.
>
>
> Tim
>
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