Re: [exim] hostlist, net-lsearch and negative items

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Author: Wolfgang Hennerbichler
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] hostlist, net-lsearch and negative items

On 10.10.2007, at 21:30, W B Hacker wrote:
> Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote:
>>
>> The file looks like this (example IP's):
>>
>> cat /etc/exim4/relay_access
>> !10.0.0.1
>> 10.0.0.0/8
>>
>> basically I want to prevent 10.0.0.1 from relaying. So I have this  
>> ACL:
>>    accept  hosts         =  /etc/exim4/relay_access
>> which works. As I want to re-use that list in a router, I'd like to
>> put it in a host-list. So I have thought of something like this:

>
> We do almost the identical thing as your pre-hostlist example.
>
> But having never thought to apply the 'negation' simply maintain
> two files,
> ....


before you replied, I decided to do something different - don't know
if this is considered hack-ish or not:
I set an ACL variable if somebody is actively relaying. I do this
with one simple line in the ACL:

accept  hosts         = /etc/exim4/relay_access
           set acl_c1    = true


so now I can deal with this variable in my router-condition:

condition = ${if and { {!eq {$received_protocol}{spam-scanned}} {<
{$message_size }{300K}} {!eq {$acl_c1}{true}} } }

I hope this is "a good way" to do this.

> CAVEAT: AFAIK hostlists AND DNS lookups are cached by Exim, but
> results of SQL
> or flat-file reads are NOT. So there can be a performance hit.


the file is very small (not more than 10 lines). I rely on OS-Caching
to not make that my performance bottleneck.

thanks for your reply;
wogri

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