Re: [exim] Non-SMTP ACL's

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Ross Boylan
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Non-SMTP ACL's
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Ross Boylan wrote:

> I'd like to double check something that I don't see explicitly in the
> manual, though it seems to be implicit.
> The only ACL's run for non-SMTP mail are acl_not_smtp and, if available,
> acl_not_smtp_mime, right?


Yes (though in the next version of Exim there will also be
acl_not_smtp_start).

> I think acl_not_smtp_mime needs to be listed in "Specifying when ACLs
> are used", section 39.2 of the 4.6 spec.


Thanks for the suggestion.

> Also, while I'm double-checking the obvious, if fetchmail delivers mail
> to exim via 127.0.0.1, that *is* an smtp delivery, right? And hosts =
> 127.0.0.1 will match it?


Yes.

> http://slett.net/spam-filtering-for-mx/exim-firstpass.html in A.4.4
> seems to indicate that hosts = : is the matching condition for "local
> SMTP (i.e., not over TCP/IP)". Is that a reference to using Unix
> sockets instead?


No, it's the -bs option. (Exim doesn't have support for accepting email
via a Unix domain socket.)

Tony.
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