On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Yes, but remember, Exim does not "start up" once and for all. It would
> have to read this file frequently. For efficiency, the options should be
> built into the binary - hence specified at build time.
Sure, but if the file didn't exist, it'd be a minuscule loss of CPU to verify
it not being there.
Also, you'd compile the support for the CLI-arg-map file in or out, so only
people likely to need the feature would choose it anyway.
> > this would allow Exim to be used in place of *any* MTA. could be a neat hack.
> I hadn't thought of that. Aarrgghh.
people migrating from FooMailer v3.14159 would love you forever. if the
left-hand-side was blank, the args in the right-hand-side would be used.
something like (indented for readability only)
-somedefaultoption1 -somedefaultoption2
-remove -Mrm
-forcedelivery -M
-plusmime
-bounce -Mg
This might even make it easier to replace nasty NT stuff with Exim?
Evil chuckle: what'd be really neat is you could then dump all that horrible
sendmail compatibility using a default mapping file :-)
Paul
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