Re: [exim] acl_not_smtp

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:55:22 +0100 (BST) Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Frank Elsner wrote:
>
> > > Because there may be more than one recipient and Exim can't accept some
> > > and deny others.
> >
> > I don't want to deny/accept, I want to test for a certain recipient.
> >
> > BTW, the variable $recipients is available (I use it in an error message).
>
> Then test that for your recipient.

Argh, shame on me.

> > A bit confused, Frank Elsner
>
> Let my try to unconfuse you. The "recipients" condition in an ACL
> provides a list of recipients to match against *this* recipient. But the
> only ACL for which "this recipient" makes sense is the RCPT ACL. Before
> RCPT there aren't any recipients, and afterwards there may be many
> recipients.

Ok, understood.

> The naming of the condition is no doubt what is confusing, but it is
> difficult to know what else to call it when we already have "domains",
> "senders", etc. and in any case, the names were chosen to be the same as
> the corresponding option names in routers (which of course existed
> before ACLs were invented).

Thanks for the explanation.


Unconfused, Frank Elsner