Rename facility to Event Actions, ifdeffed on EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT

[exim.git] / doc / doc-txt / experimental-spec.txt

diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
index e7a0d06682e95e507edf0d8c376bb1b6788e9a65..2d34de0f76d2e9a7c5c3f29e30ee90c2e8143070 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
@@ -759,11 +759,12 @@ b. Configure, somewhere before the DATA ACL, the control option to
 
 
 
-Transport post-delivery actions
+Event Actions
 --------------------------------------------------------------
 
-An arbitrary per-transport string can be expanded upon various transport events
-and (for SMTP transports) a second string on deferrals caused by a host error.
+(Renamed from TPDA, Transport post-delivery actions)
+
+An arbitrary per-transport string can be expanded upon various transport events.
 Additionally a main-section configuration option can be expanded on some
 per-message events.
 This feature may be used, for example, to write exim internal log information
@@ -771,33 +772,33 @@ This feature may be used, for example, to write exim internal log information
 
 In order to use the feature, you must compile with
 
-EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA=yes
+EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT=yes
 
 in your Local/Makefile
 
 and define one or both of
-- the tpda_event_action option in the transport
-- the delivery_event_action
+- the event_action option in the transport
+- the event_action main option
 to be expanded when the event fires.
 
-A new variable, $tpda_event, is set to the event type when the
+A new variable, $event_name, is set to the event type when the
 expansion is done.  The current list of events is:
 
-       msg:complete            main            per message
-       msg:delivery            transport       per recipient
-       msg:host:defer          transport       per attempt
-       msg:fail:delivery       main            per recipient
-       msg:fail:internal       main            per recipient
-       tcp:connect             transport       per connection
-       tcp:close               transport       per connection
-       tls:cert                transport       per certificate in verification chain
-       smtp:connect            transport       per connection
-
-The expansion is called for all event types, and should use the $tpda_event
+ msg:complete          after  main       per message
+ msg:delivery          after  transport  per recipient
+ msg:host:defer                after  transport  per attempt
+ msg:fail:delivery     after  main       per recipient
+ msg:fail:internal     after  main       per recipient
+ tcp:connect           before transport  per connection
+ tcp:close             after  transport  per connection
+ tls:cert              before transport  per certificate in verification chain
+ smtp:connect          after  transport  per connection
+
+The expansion is called for all event types, and should use the $event_name
 value to decide when to act.  The variable data is a colon-separated
 list, describing an event tree.
 
-There is an auxilary variable, $tpda_data, for which the
+There is an auxilary variable, $event_data, for which the
 content is event_dependent:
 
        msg:delivery            smtp confirmation mssage
@@ -805,7 +806,7 @@ content is event_dependent:
        tls:cert                verification chain depth
        smtp:connect            smtp banner
 
-The msg:host:defer event populates one extra variable, $tpda_defer_errno.
+The msg:host:defer event populates one extra variable, $event_defer_errno.
 
 The following variables are likely to be useful depending on the event type:
 
@@ -820,7 +821,7 @@ The following variables are likely to be useful depending on the event type:
 
 An example might look like:
 
-tpda_event_action = ${if = {msg:delivery}{$tpda_event} \
+event_action = ${if = {msg:delivery}{$event_name} \
 {${lookup pgsql {SELECT * FROM record_Delivery( \
     '${quote_pgsql:$sender_address_domain}',\
     '${quote_pgsql:${lc:$sender_address_local_part}}', \
@@ -831,12 +832,12 @@ tpda_event_action = ${if = {msg:delivery}{$tpda_event} \
     '${quote_pgsql:$message_exim_id}')}} \
 } {}}
 
-The string is expanded for each of the supported events and any
-side-effects will happen.  The result is then discarded.
+The string is expanded when each of the supported events occur
+and any side-effects of the expansion will happen.
 Note that for complex operations an ACL expansion can be used.
 
 
-The expansion of the tpda_event_action option should normally
+The expansion of the event_action option should normally
 return an empty string.  Should it return anything else the
 following will be forced:
 
@@ -848,6 +849,7 @@ following will be forced:
        tls:cert        refuse verification
        smtp:connect    close connection
 
+No other use is made of the result string.