Marc Perkel wrote: > > Graeme Fowler wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 12:46 +0100, Chris Edwards wrote: >> >>> What _doesn't_ work is writing a header in the DATA acl itself, prior to >>> the call to SA. The doesn't seem to be seen by SA. >>> >> This is expected behaviour, as documented here: >> >> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch40.html#SECTaddheadacl >> >> "The add_header modifier is permitted in the MAIL, RCPT, PREDATA, DATA, >> MIME, and non-SMTP ACLs (in other words, those that are concerned with >> receiving a message). The message must ultimately be accepted for >> add_header to have any significant effect." >> >> and >> >> "Header lines are not visible in string expansions until they are added >> to the message. It follows that header lines defined in the MAIL, RCPT, >> and predata ACLs are not visible until the DATA ACL and MIME ACLs are >> run. Similarly, header lines that are added by the DATA or MIME ACLs are >> not visible in those ACLs. Because of this restriction, you cannot use >> header lines as a way of passing data between (for example) the MAIL and >> RCPT ACLs." >> >> ...being the most relevant parts for Chris. And probably for Marc, too. >> >> Graeme >> >> > > OK - in fact I did test it and it wasn't working. And that was the > reason I left the message. To see if I was doing something wrong or if > there was a bug. > > Might I suggest that headers should be added to the message being passed > to spamassassin (although they don't have to be added to the message > itself until later) because it is useful for exim to be able to > communicate with SA in that way. >
AFAIK there has long existed more than one method of passing parameters to SA - or causing it to read them from a recipient or domain specific file. Hardly a 'bug', nor even a needful feature - if headers don't happen to be one of those at the paticular stage you want them to be. The general challenge with headers vs acl_m's, hostlists, lsearch's, SQL-SELECTs et al, is that you then have to insure that your headers are world-unique, AND/OR pre-strip any lookalikes that might have crawled in the door with the existing headers. Not always a trivial - or even consequence-free task You can gain greater certainty with less effort by other means. Bill -- ## 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/
