Re: [Exim] Using macros within ACL files

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Author: John Dalbec
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To: Hubbard, Matt R W, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Using macros within ACL files

Hubbard, Matt R W wrote:

> Would it be feasible and advisable to have MACRO expansion applied to loaded ACL files? As this doesn't seem to happen in v4.30.
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> Cheers,
> Matt.
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> For example:
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> in file exim.conf:
> ...
> ETCDIR=/usr/local/exim/etc
> acl_smtp_data=ETCDIR/acl-data
> ...
>
> in file acl-data:
> deny !acl = ETCDIR/acl-data-attachments
> warn acl = ETCDIR/acl-data-spam
>
>
> This currently fails with 'unknown ACL verb in "ETCDIR/acl-data-attachments"'.


What's in file ETCDIR/acl-data-attachments? I've run into this when I had a
multi-line regex clause (condition=...) and forgot a \ at the end of one of the
lines.

John
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