On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:55:22 +0100 (BST) Philip Hazel wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Frank Elsner wrote: > > > > Because there may be more than one recipient and Exim can't accept some > > > and deny others. > > > > I don't want to deny/accept, I want to test for a certain recipient. > > > > BTW, the variable $recipients is available (I use it in an error message). > > Then test that for your recipient.
Argh, shame on me. > > A bit confused, Frank Elsner > > Let my try to unconfuse you. The "recipients" condition in an ACL > provides a list of recipients to match against *this* recipient. But the > only ACL for which "this recipient" makes sense is the RCPT ACL. Before > RCPT there aren't any recipients, and afterwards there may be many > recipients. Ok, understood. > The naming of the condition is no doubt what is confusing, but it is > difficult to know what else to call it when we already have "domains", > "senders", etc. and in any case, the names were chosen to be the same as > the corresponding option names in routers (which of course existed > before ACLs were invented). Thanks for the explanation. Unconfused, Frank Elsner -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
