Re: [exim] Use of whitelist and blacklist RBL's

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John Horne
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Use of whitelist and blacklist RBL's
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, John Horne wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 15:40 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> True. It just seemed that using 3 variables in this instance was
> excessive? I already use 3 acl_c variables and 5 of the acl_m ones. If I
> need to store other things in the future I fear I could run out of
> variables! :-)


Human nature is endlessly fascinating. I too start to get worried about
running out of things (e.g. disk space) when I haven't even used up 50%
of what's available.

If you are really paranoid, you could pack it all into one variable and
parse it out again afterwards with a regex.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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