Re: [Exim] Using "authenticated = *"

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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
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To: konrad, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Using "authenticated = *"
At 1:19 pm +0100 2004/06/15, Konrad Michels wrote:
>Hi again folks
>Just to let you know I figured out what the problem was in the end:
>although I'm still a little puzzled as to why it was happening.
>
>I have an:
>
>accept authenticated = *
>
>in my acl, ^followed^ by a
>
>deny message = . . . . .
>      dnslists =

>
>which looks to the dnsbl's I'm using.
>
>As far as I understood the ACL's order mattered, much like routers, so I


of course, but this is not really a good comparison. The order
matters *within* an ACL. An acl *is* the set of verbs and conditions,
not the individual ones.
So, pardon if the question might seem silly, but are you sure you
have the "accept authenticated" in the same acl as the dnslist
condition?


>would have thought that if a message was coming in from an asmtp
>session, it would get caught by the "accept authenticated = *" ACL and
>proceed to routing and delivering the message.
>
>This, however, does not seem to be the case! How I got it to work was
>to ammend my dnsbl blocks to read something along the lines of
>
>deny !authenticated = *
>      message =  . . . .
>      dnslists =  . . .




this simply does not make sense. See my question above.

Giuliano