Ted Cooper wrote: > If something so simple as ACLs need to have enough parameters passed to > them that people start thinking it's too confusing to understand, and > they they are polluting the global namespace, then I think those people > need to change their thinking just a little bit and examine what is > already possible, or start working on Exim 5.0.
Still think it would be nice. > There are a number of easy to implement extensions that alleviate the > need to make your ACLs stupidly complex. > > The global namespace is essentially infinite. You can have variables for > pretty much anything and everything. I setup ~20 at connect time at present. That's alot of variables set at connection time. > You can direct the flow of ACLs by variable expansion. Call an ACL named > "acl_var2" rather than pass a variable acl_x_var2. Still reminds me of using global variables to call routines in other languages. I still prefer doing things inside the config (like database accesses) if possible than to use external calls. > Use ${run{prog many many many many (60!)} arguments which can return > many many arguments in key=value pairs which can be ${extract}ed > > Use ${readsocket} - my personal favourite - I have a partner daemon > listening on a socket which makes everything but routing decisions. > > Use ${dlfunc} - I only just found this one .. looks like it might be > quite useful and easy to manage. May be faster then ${run, ${readsocket. > > local_scan.c - the classic > > Write your own other functions and throw them into the code. Don't > expect them to make the main source if it's just for your local setup. For my case, this was just database access. I had the code in the acl section in several places. I condensed it and placed it in a seperate acl. Quite simplified things a bit. > All of these possibilities mean you can probably make a much more easily > understandable and possibly more powerful solution than confusing a > rather straight forward ACL system. Modifications to the code rarely get > bungled by version changes and is simply a matter of keeping a patch. > > Just pointing out the possibilities that make life simpler! All the other posiibilities (again, database access) are much more difficult to do. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/