On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Adrian Bool wrote:
> Philip, any chance of making exim accept input for the -M options
> on the std input? I don't know how xargs will execute this
> but we usually recurse through a list, making it very inefficent
> by starting up the exim binary say, 1000 times.
Gulp! Well, it could be done, of course. Idea noted.
> Undoubtedly another option would be added onto the command line
> to inform exim of this...
I suppose, following precedent, the syntax could be
exim -M -
In the meantime, you could write a program or script to call Exim with
say 100 ids on a command line, thus reducing your 1000 start-ups to 10.
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