Re: [exim] acl_smtp_mime

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:49:20 +0100 Tom Kistner wrote:
> Frank Elsner wrote:
>
> > I get all my mail by uucp
>
> Are there nostalgic reasons for this? Not wanting to insult, but can't
> this be "fixed" by upgrading to a newer technology? The last time I used
> UUCP was around ~94/95 when you could get Usenet feeds from local
> mailboxes by dialup ...

Don't ask *me*, better ask my ISP :-) It's old technology, but it works.

> > acl_smtp_mime can't be used in this situation. Why not ?
>
> The way it is implemented right now the MIME ACL is a sister of the DATA
> ACL, sharing its result code. Other that that, there is no technical
> reason for not allowing it for non-SMTP input.
>
> > Is there any chance to have the mime checks available in acl_not_smtp ?
>
> Hm. Check out receive.c, look for ACL_WHERE_MIME. Theres a condition at
> the top of the block that goes like !smtp_input. Remove that, recompile
> and do your testing. :)

Thanks for the pointer. I'll try and report.


--Frank Elsner