On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> You do need to watch this since routers are a per recipient item, and
> acls may also be per recipient items, so the header set you are carrying
> will also become per-recipient before it ever gets to the transports.
> This could make life very interesting indeed :-
Thanks for highlighting another perhaps non-obvious feature. Or perhaps
"feature". Although some ACLs may be per-recipient, any header lines
that are added in an ACL are global. This is different from the case
when they are added by a router, when they are local to the address.
I think that the current state is probably right because only the RCPT
ACL is per-recipient, so changing things would make it different from
all the others. (And would require a lot of new code, to be honest.)
Does anyone feel differently? At the very least, I should document this
feature clearly.
Doing a general Spring Clean on all the header line handling looks like
a good idea for sometime soon.
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