On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, James FitzGibbon wrote:
> I've used Cyrus (1.5.2 I think) and deliver was just a program that took a
> message on STDIN. Have they made it a full daemon now ? If so, then
> changing the smtp transport as you describe is feasible. I wonder though if
> it's a wise idea if there are many other transport agents out there that
> only accept piped input. i.e. saying "Exim supports LMTP" may give users of
> binmail and smtpfeed or mail.local the wrong idea.
I think we have to distinguish "LMTP over TCP/IP" and "LMTP over
file-descriptor". The former could no doubt be done by a flag in the
smtp transport. However, given the existence of the latter, I think I
would prefer to have an entirely separate lmtp transport which handles
both cases via some suitable options, e.g. you set either
lmtp_command = xxxx
in order to run a pipe, or you set
lmtp_hosts = list of hosts to try
I guess port= would be needed too. Maybe only a single host is needed.
That would simplify the code quite a lot.
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