Author: Peter Bowyer Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Use of whitelist and blacklist RBL's
On 22/06/05, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote: > 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.
I was going to suggest ${extract to overload an acl variable....could
turn them into quasi-hashes....
