Francesco Pasqualini wrote:
> Thanks Ron, fixed !
>
> what I was missing is just to call the defined ACL:
>
> acl_smtp_mail = acl_check_mail
>
> Another error is that I was naming the acl exactly acl_smtp_mail that I
> think is a reserved config word
>
> thanks a lot
AFAIK, you actually *can* use the built-in names directly for the acl sections,
but it is a much better idea to use the 'mapping' to names of your own.
Also very useful for comparison testing:
I keep an acl<whater>_p for production use, and and acl_<whatever>_t for testing.
My 'stock' _t is simply an 'accept' - basically to skip all checking of its
session phase and let me focus on debugging the others. This also serves as a
label or 'marker' for entry into each phase in the longish configure files I
tend to use.
But .. it could just as well be complex.
So a minor edit to map which one is active/not lets me use one or the other w/o
having to do multiple insert/delete of a largish chunk of text - possibly into
the wrong place, or with an unexpected line break.
Handy that....
Bill
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> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Ron White <exim.ml@???> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 16:24 +0200, Francesco Pasqualini wrote:
>>> hi all,
>>> I'm trying to use acl_smtp_mail (exim4 on ubuntu)
>>>
>>> The acl does not work, like it wasn't there.
>>>
>>> For example my config.autogenerated is as follow, bat every mail is
>>> accepted:
>>>
>>> acl_smtp_mail:
>>>
>>> deny message = User has been blocked
>>> senders = *
>>>
>>> deny
>>>
>>> What I'm missing ?
>>>
>>> thanks
>> Are you actually calling/referencing your defined acl in one of the
>> acl_smtp_xxxx directives in the main section of the runtime
>> configuration? Such as:
>>
>> acl_smtp_rcpt = acl_smtp_mail
>> or
>> acl_smtp_data = acl_smtp_mail
>>
>> For troubleshooting the acid test to see what is happening would be to
>> run a debug session on the command line (here pretending to be from a
>> gmail IP):
>> exim -d -bh 209.85.229.27
>> giving it the normal smtp commands one at at time such as:
>> helo .
>> mail from: <>
>> rcpt to: your.user@???
>> data
>>
>> This should show what is/is not going on. The logs may well have useful
>> information too.
>>
>>
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