right - nevermind.

Christopher Meadors wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
>   
>> In addition to all the standard ACLs I'd like to suggest a headers acl 
>> that would run at the blank line between the headers and the message. 
>> That way I can take action without having to wait for all the data to be 
>> transfered.
>>     
> What action would you be taking?  No client will accept a response at 
> that point.  So only two of the ACL verbs would be valid, "accept" to 
> keep on going and "drop", to just disconnect the sender.  Dropping 
> malware connections may be OK, but if there is a chance that the other 
> end is a real mail server it would amount to confusion as to why the 
> connection went away without any sort of error message.  The "drop" verb 
> does still offer an error line before closing the connection; that 
> wouldn't be possible here.
>
> If you notice all the ACLs are triggered by the SMTP conversation.  They 
> allow the admin to tailor Exim's responses when it is time to give a 
> reply to the sender.  There is nothing for the server to do during the 
> DATA portion except sit and listen.
>
>   

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