Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: 857 CC: exim-dev Subject: Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 857] New: The logic of ACL acl_smtp_rcpt is
unintuitive
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, ST admin wrote:
> The cause is that, since all acls are evaluated as true if they are not
> specified (or commented) in the config file, I assumed that it would be the
> same for acl_smtp_rcpt. But it's not the case!
>
> This is unintuitive. Even if this logic is documented (in sec 7.1), it's always
> better to provide an intuitive and "natural" configuration.
However, it is also important to provide a "safe" default. Also,
people's intuitions differ. :-) It is deliberate that Exim will not
accept any recipients by default. You have to tell it which ones to
accept. Now, I'm no longer working on Exim, so the current maintainers
may choose to change if they want to, but I suspect they won't because
it would be a huge incompatible change. And, personally, I still think
the current default is correct.
