Re: [exim] acl_smtp_quit

Jakob Hirsch wrote:
> Quoting Ted Cooper:
>
>> I've played around with it a little and it seems (laughably enough),
>> that acl_smtp_quit is only called on ... a quit!
>
> Works as designed, I'd say :)
>
>> Is there some way to detect a discon?
>
> There seems to be no "acl_smtp_disconnect", but as Exim detects
> disconnects and logs them ("unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP
> command ..."), I guess it would not be to hard to do such a thing (one
> has only make sure to catch all exit paths). But then you also need a
> flag (read: expansion variable) that tells you how the disconnect was
> initiated.
> Use Bugzilla to file a feature request.

I'm pretty sure there already is one. If worse came to worse I could add
it myself, but it's got such a limited use that I don't know if it would
ever make it into the source (I write really messy code :P).

> Meanwhile, you could tail and grep the log for such things:
> 2007-03-06 10:55:50 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP command
> from (localhost) [84.53.219.133]:2207 I=[85.214.25.134]:25
>
> Or (probably cleaner and easier, so I'd prefer that) you could mark all
> greylist entries "dirty" in your DB by default, and clean them in your
> quit acl.

That's how I'll be doing it I think. I've already got the daemon being
notified when someone uses QUIT, just have to make it do something with
it. Cleaner and works on unmodified exim source :)

Ted