Re: [Exim] filtering by email address

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Auteur: Philip Hazel
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Aan: Steve Haslam
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] filtering by email address
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Steve Haslam wrote:

> I think you could do this part by having a system-wide message filter
> that does an "unseen pipe /some/prog $sender_address", where
> /some/prog notes down that the named sender has mailed the recipients
> in the message headers... all it has to do is open the (say) dbm at
> (say) /var/state/exim/frienddb/$sender_address, and write records for
> each recipient.


No quite all. Consider two messages being sent at once. You have to
think about locking.

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