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author | Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org> | 2016-01-16 22:17:33 +0000 |
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committer | Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org> | 2016-01-16 23:20:24 +0000 |
commit | 4f6ae5c314e5c3e462313f3b53c917f36b131bf4 (patch) | |
tree | 1d46ff1a265a21c1a0ff3d795d95eb02b6989086 /doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt | |
parent | fa01e4f81d44f68f0a92be34b687c05f2ddbc2e9 (diff) |
VRFY: Permit an ACL to override the default 252 response, to support
verify-by-ACL instead of the more usual verify-by-routers. Bug 1769
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt index aa1e67712..cb913d6f1 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt @@ -34046,13 +34046,20 @@ specific badly-behaved hosts that you have to live with. When Exim receives a VRFY or EXPN command on a TCP/IP connection, it runs the ACL specified by &%acl_smtp_vrfy%& or &%acl_smtp_expn%& (as appropriate) in order to decide whether the command should be accepted or not. -If no ACL is defined, the command is rejected. +.new .cindex "VRFY" "processing" +When no ACL is defined for VRFY, or if it rejects without +setting an explicit response code, the command is accepted +(with a 252 SMTP response code) +in order to support awkward clients that do a VRFY before every RCPT. +.wen When VRFY is accepted, it runs exactly the same code as when Exim is -called with the &%-bv%& option. +called with the &%-bv%& option, and returns 250/451/550 +SMTP response codes. .cindex "EXPN" "processing" +If no ACL for EXPN is defined, the command is rejected. When EXPN is accepted, a single-level expansion of the address is done. EXPN is treated as an &"address test"& (similar to the &%-bt%& option) rather than a verification (the &%-bv%& option). If an unqualified local part is given |