Re: [exim] Log stats to DB?

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Author: Ian Eiloart
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To: exim-users
CC: D. Dante Lorenso, Ted Cooper
Subject: Re: [exim] Log stats to DB?


--On 30 August 2007 09:51:10 +0100 Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Phil Pennock wrote:
>
>> On 2007-08-29 at 15:28 -0500, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:
>> > It would be nice if Exim included a means of executing queries without
>> > forcing me to use what seems like a side-effect of the 'warn' feature.
>> > I mean, technically it's not a "warning", you know.
>>
>> That would be the "continue" ACL modifier which was added in Exim 4.67
>> for just this reason. See the "NewStuff" file which comes with the Exim
>> docs, 4.67 item 17.
>
> Not really. The OP wants a "nicer" name for "warn", which is a verb
> rather than a modifier. Clearly it would be trivial to add a synonym for
> "warn", such as "null" or "pass", but is it worth the effort?


How about just "do". "Null" isn't a verb, and "pass" seems synonymous with
"accept". "Do" simply suggests that something is done:

do <something>
    condition <something else>


I think it would be worthwhile, simply because it makes the filter more
readable.
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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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