On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 04:55:18PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 12:10:14AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > >
> > > Cute idea, but I don't like the implementation much -- it would be
> > > better for it to be available in a general fashion from ACLs.
> >
> > I looked at that first. However, since (AFAICT) the ACL system works in a
> > accept/reject/defer logic, my understanding was that a fourth command would had
> > to be added to the underlying code specificaly for this feature. Is this
> > appreciation correct?
>
> I am watching this thread, but my first feeling is that it is totally
> against the overall Exim "approach" to put it where you have. Deciding
> what local parts mean (alias/mailinglist/local login/etc) happens in
> routers, and it doesn't seem right to hard wire it into the smtp_in
> module unconditionally. (Can't remember if you checked the domain, but
> that needs flexibility too - not all domains are the same.)
What do we check in the domain, just that it belongs to us?
> As to your question above, I'm not sure what you are asking. There are
> only the three possibilities (accept/reject/defer) that one can give to
> a RCPT command. What is the fourth that you are thinking of?
>
> I haven't spent much time looking at this, but if you just want to give
> a particular 5xx response to a RCPT command when a user sets up a
> .redirect file,
Yes, that's precisely what I want. Technicaly it's a reject, just with a
particular code (551).
> what is wrong with a router like this? Not tested,
> not even syntactically correct, but I think it should be possible to do
> it:
>
> redirect_special:
> driver = redirect
> check_local_user
> require_file $home/.redirect
> condition = ${a hairy condition that reads the file, picks the domain
> out of the address, and checks it against +local_domains for not
> being local}
> data = :fail: Not local, try ${readfile{$home/.redirect}}
Ok, I'll try to do it this way. Is there any documentation around for the Exim
config file interface? In particular, does ${readfile} support proper parsing?
(remove # comments, trailing newlines, empty lines, etc)
> OK, it may give the wrong 5xx code - there are wish list items about
> that kind of problem.
Could you give me a reference to these items? I'd help with them if I can.
> Final thought: how many users are going to appreciate the difference
> between .forward and .redirect, or were you thinking that sysadmins
> would create those files?
I was thinking of users (those who know what .redirect means, of course). For
sysadmins, we could have the same syntax extension for /etc/aliases that
Sendmail does (see my other mail about this, in this thread).
--
Robert Millan
