Re: [Exim] Using "authenticated = *"

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Author: Konrad Michels
Date:  
To: Giuliano Gavazzi
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Using "authenticated = *"
Hi Guiliano
Yes, you're 100% right! Thanks for the pointer: in my sleep-deprived
daze I hadn't noticed that I'd put them in the wrong ACL even though the
clue was in the log messages . . . . sigh . ..

Thanks again
Konrad


On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 13:32, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
> 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
>
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