Re: [exim] Dovecot style Authentication Policy Server for Ex…

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Author: Andrew Nimmo
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To: Andrew C Aitchison
CC: exim users, Mike Tubby
Subject: Re: [exim] Dovecot style Authentication Policy Server for Exim?
Top-posting too, for brevity.

Yes, $sender_host_address is passed to dovecot:

https://github.com/Exim/exim/blob/master/src/src/auths/dovecot.c#L405

and is available for the weakforced policy service to use, as variable:
lt.remote. (See my previous reply.)


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On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 20:57, Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-users <
exim-users@???> wrote:

>
> Top posting seems the best style for this reply.
> I have pruned the original question.
>
> There is a Dovecot Authenticator for Exim (spec.txt chapter 37)
> I'm not sure whether $sender_host_address is passed to Dovecot,
> so it may or may not be possible to enforce the GEOIP policy
> (but I'd be tempted to do that in a firewall such as iptables
> before the connection reaches exim unless the location of the
> logging is critical).
>
>