In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Noel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>  Postfix doesn't actually
>> have the specific bit of information I want/need in my policy server
>> (despite the fact that I had really hoped that it did) and thus it
>
>When a policy service is called, postfix doesn't know if a 
>specific client has relay access.  YOU define who has relay 
>access in smtpd_recipient_restrictions, which may have complex 
>nested rules, and may not have been evaluated yet.

Right.  I _did_ grok all that already, based on Wietse's last post.
But thanks for reiterating.

>It's not unreasonable to add a "mynetworks_client=[yes,no]" to 
>the policy protocol.

Perhaps, but it does seem rather entirely less useful to me now than it
did earlier.

>Hack up a patch (with a terse documentation diff too) and 
>submit it for comment.

I think I'm going to take a pass on that.  But thanks.

It's easy enough to just pass a copy of $mynetworks to an external policy
server, e.g. via the command line argv.

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