[exim] Re: negation is not allowed with "acl"

Marc Haber wrote:


>
> Debian uses a sub-ACL to exclude sender e-mail addresses and sender IP
> addresses from a number of ACL checks, and the notation of "!acl" has
> been a convenient and intuitive way of specifying this behavior.

Wasn't aware of that capability. Do see the value.

>
> If it were my decision, I'd like to have that feature back. If that's
> not possible for some reason, how am I supposed to implement the
> whitelist now?
>

Any of the several ways used by those of use who did not know
one could negate an acl in the first place?

Samples if you need 'em, but I suspect you know more of the
tricks than I do already.

OTOH - if possible, having negation (return to) being as
'universal' and orthogonal as it can be would also be handy.

Bill