On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, John Horne wrote:
> The problem is that the variables, $dnslist_domain, $dnslist_value and
> $dnslist_text all get 'overwritten' by the whitelist look up. As such
> when the message is denied our local log message contains the wrong
> DNSBL, the whitelist one, rather than the blacklist one.
>
> Rearranging the exim configuration doesn't seem possible. So I'm
> wondering if there is any way for 'dnslists' not to set the variables -
> a wishlist item for a dnslists option?
Surely you can just save the values in some ACL variables?
> A way around it is to perform the DNS lookup using dnsdb rather than
> 'dnslists', but that seems to defeat the object (simplicity) of using
> 'dnslists'. Alternatively I could set 3 acl variables to store
> $dnslist_domain etc, but again that seems a bit of a cludge when the
> ($dnslist_xxx) variables are already there - and I see no way of setting
> the $dnslist variables myself.
Ah, you spotted that already. I'm afraid that I feel that a non-setting
call to dnslists is IMHO untidy and unorthogonal. I don't feel that
saving values in variables is particularly reprehensible.
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