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Author: Phil Pennock
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To: exim-dev
Subject: [exim-dev] [Bug 1062] increase the maximum recursion depth for ACLs
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062

Phil Pennock <pdp@???> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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   Target Milestone|Exim 4.74                   |Exim 4.75
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX





--- Comment #7 from Phil Pennock <pdp@???> 2011-02-06 09:25:51 ---
I objected in #1.

So far, the only use case proposed is an actively dangerous one for which a
safe viable alternative was proposed but never implemented by the administrator
in question, who instead just repeatedly pushed for us to make a dangerous
change.

Unless and until I see a use-case clearly presented for raising the limit where
the use-case is not dangerous and there is no alternative, we should not
implement this raise.

If a real use-case is found, then it's a deficiency in the existing facilities.
We should then look at what's needed.

It is possible that what is needed is an "acl" expansion condition which can be
used in a ${forall...} loop. To prove this, someone who thinks they need the
limit raised should explain their scenario on exim-users and ask for help
finding a configuration, in the normal way. If a solution is proposed which
works, we go with that. If not, we look into acl-as-expansion-condition.

Since Exim's not a general-purpose scripting language, we don't need to provide
multiple ways to achieve the same thing.

As it is, the count stands at:
* one maintainer strongly opposed
* one maintainer tentatively supporting, if no other maintainer opposes

Closing this bug wontfix.


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