From fc9c231709c26bef8c27a60a76f835d12b20268f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Hazel Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:31:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (1) Tidies to the Wishlist; (2) Extra testing for duplicates and Envelope-to. --- doc/doc-misc/WishList | 41 ++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/doc-misc/WishList b/doc/doc-misc/WishList index 1704cdbb3..9a23b3f30 100644 --- a/doc/doc-misc/WishList +++ b/doc/doc-misc/WishList @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-misc/WishList,v 1.15 2004/12/17 14:52:43 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-misc/WishList,v 1.16 2004/12/22 15:31:47 ph10 Exp $ EXIM 4 WISH LIST ---------------- @@ -577,15 +577,6 @@ size. Directory scanning is expensive; is there any scope for caching? It would seem not (you don't often get two addresses to the same user). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -(4) 01-Jan-02 S Option to reject if no From: or Date: header line - -Exim, in common with many other MTAs, inserts a From: or Date: header line if -one is missing. (It also inserts a blank Bcc:, but that is no longer needed by -RFC 2822 - it was by 822.) The suggestion is an option to give an error -instead. This could be done by making it possible to detect these insertions in -the acl_smtp_data ACL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - (6) 01-Jan-02 S Option to disable the use of -t Dave C. @@ -767,9 +758,11 @@ Client: We need a variant of 'exim -bs' which would connect to a specified host, send AUTH/ATRN, and then accept incoming messages as usual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -(50) 22-May-02 T Add comment (duplicate address) to Envelope-To: +(50) 22-May-02 S? Add comment (duplicate address) to Envelope-To: -This is just to minimize the confusion some people have. +This is just to minimize the confusion some people have. However, it is not +trivially easy to decide which to label as duplicates because of complications +with redirection. I'm not convinced it will actually reduce confusion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (51) 07-Jun-02 S Option to use another address in callout MAIL FROM @@ -884,7 +877,8 @@ too messy! The only sensible approach seems to be to allow IP address arguments only. Anything else should be diagnosed as an error. However, if a name appears in the list, a PTR lookup should be done. This may require a lot of refactoring -in the code. +in the code, because of the current assumption that were are (almost) always +dealing with THE sending host. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (74) 22-Jul-02 M Extend -bV to do more semantic checking @@ -1481,7 +1475,8 @@ and last item with ease; doing this using {if ...} would be quite difficult!" (230) 30-Jan-04 M Find IP addresses of a domain's nameservers This needs some way of processing a list of things in a similar way, which -should perhaps be a more general facility. +should perhaps be a more general facility. // This can now be done using the +list facilities of dnsdb; verbose, but it can be done. // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (231) 30-Jan-04 ? -C has a number of problems when used for real @@ -1500,7 +1495,9 @@ course, security issues. This is not something I want to go into at present. (235) 02-Feb-04 T Make smtp_accept_count available as a variable This is for use in ACLs. Of course, it is a snapshot of the count at the -start of the receiving process. +start of the receiving process. As such, it could be confusing because if a +connection lasts a long time, the "true" value could be very different. For +this reason, I don't really like this idea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (236) 02-Feb-04 S String in local_scan that's added to the binary version string @@ -1527,7 +1524,8 @@ library, because there's no crypto code in Exim itself. (240) 23-Feb-04 ? Some way to know if a ip is a mx for a given domain Some kind of iterative operation for dnsdb might be a general way of providing -this. +this. // This can now be done using the list facilities of dnsdb; verbose, but +it can be done. // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (242) 01-Mar-04 ? Run a filter from an expansion condition @@ -1731,23 +1729,12 @@ callout cache in time for the sender's next attempt." What about ** lines? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -(298) 25-Oct-04 S Debugging the daemon process only - -When there are daemon problems (e.g. it dies) it would be helpful to be able to -turn on debugging that did not get passed on to any subprocesses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - (299) 25-Oct-04 S Options to make Sieve "keep" pass to next router Currently, "keep" saves in the mailbox. Probably need two options, for implicit and explicit keep commands. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -(300) 25-Oct-04 S Option to lock out Sieve or Exim filter - -Currently, if allow_filter is set, either kind of filter is permitted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - (301) 27-Oct-04 M Use an "ACL" to filter logging This idea was for ACL syntax to be able to "accept" or "deny" individual log -- 2.25.1