Re: [Exim] SMTP rewriting not shown with debugging

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John Horne
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP rewriting not shown with debugging
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, John Horne wrote:

> Alternatively it could be argued that I'm being lazy and should just
> write the ACL's to cope with both addresses! But why? Why not use an
> SMTP-time rewrite to make things a bit easier? It works and seems to
> have no side-effects! :-)


Side effect: no log line will ever show the unrewritten address (unless
you enable +rewrite to log the actual rewriting).

FYI: If you specify "ordinary" rewriting, addresses are supposed to be
rewritten before being verified in an ACL. Do you have evidence that
they are not?

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