Re: [exim] Understanding deny / require

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Autor: Stuart Gall
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To: Martijn Grendelman
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [exim] Understanding deny / require

On 1 Nov 2006, at 19:25, Martijn Grendelman wrote:

>>>>    require verify        = sender
>>>>            log_message   = DENY - Sender verification failed

>>>>
>>>> but this line is written for all messages that pass through
>>>
>>> Are you sure? log_message text is supposed to be written to the
>>> log only when an ACL verb denies access, or if all conditions of
>>> a warn statement are true (but since you put log_message after
>>> the condition, it won't be reached in that case; processing of a
>>> statement stops as soon as the outcome is known.)
>> No, I am sorry, I mixed things up, because I was writing this
>> message and changing my config at the same time.
>> In fact, I had
>> logwrite = DENY - Sender verification failed ($sender_address)
>> when I saw these messages in the log about sender addresses that
>> actually passed sender verification (or should have, anyway). I
>> changed it to log_message later.
>
>
> Let me rephrase my question.
>
> I would like to something like:
>
> require   condition = ${...}
>           logwrite  = Failure message


Does

require condition
    log_message = Failure message



Work ?

logwrite is more for debugging things than logging.

>
> but I want the log line to be written only when the ACL denies, so
> when the condition fails.
>
> Is that possible? If yes, how?
>
> Thanks,
> Martijn.
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