Author: Kelley Reynolds Date: To: exim-users Subject: re: [Exim] Idea for a per-recipient DATA ACL stage
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From: Eli <eli-list@???>
Sent: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:30:45 -0400
To: exim-users@???, exiscanusers@???
Subject: [Exim] Idea for a per-recipient DATA ACL stage
> As you can probably gather from the quoted text, it's just the same as the
> normal DATA ACL (not like the MIME ACL) but it is run through for each
> recipient so that $local_part and $domain are filled with the current
> recipient. Now obviously if a message has several hundred recipients then
> this could take up quite a bit of time to run through depending on what is
> in the ACL. This would mean that the user would have to be concious of the
> SMTP timeouts between stages to make sure that they don't time out anywhere.
>
> However, with the potential baddies of adding this, there is too much good
> that can come of it to ignore. No more "one recipient at a time" hacks to
> have per user spam or anti virus settings - no more restrictions for per
> domain/user level anything any more! > Personally though, my big reason for mentioning something like this (and
> hoping that the idea is followed through!) is that it would allow other
> message filtering to be done at ACL time as well that was per domain/user
> specific.
It's easy enough to have per-address and per-domain DATA settings simply by using acl-type conditions in the routers. This accomplishes everything that you want, except for having the rejection done during the DATA phase, which can still be done for single recipients.
