Re: [exim] Let the 'postmaster' callout option be damned

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: David Woodhouse
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Let the 'postmaster' callout option be damned
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:

> The extra switch is to specify the source address to be used with the
> callout. If you _really_ want it to be MAIL FROM:<> then you can, but
> personally I'd much rather switch to using a different address -- one I
> can ensure won't provoke further callouts.


Aha! I see.

> I tend to agree with Tim that it would be useful to discourage
> unthinking use of the empty sender with postmaster callouts -- hence the
> suggestion that postmaster callouts shouldn't happen unless
> 'postmaster_callout_sender' is explicitly set. I'm not _too_ set on that
> part though -- I'd just like the option of specifying the source
> address.


On a matter of technical detail: I don't think it should be a global
option (in the Exim 3 style). It should, if implemented, be another
sub-option of the "callout" option in the ACL.

    verify = sender/callout,postmaster,postmaster_sender=xxxx



Regards,
Philip

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