On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > There isn't one, on efficiency grounds. The file gets read frequently.
>
> If exim runs as a daemon, not really :-)
Unless you are running with a low security setting, the daemon is going
to re-exec Exim every time a message arrives, in order to start the
delivery (unless you have queue_only set). Every time Exim execs, it
reads the file.
> (incidently my ssmtp relay got broken today because exim.conf got modified
> and not exim.conf.auth. That's exactly what I wanted to avoid...)
When files have to be kept in step, a build process is your friend.
That's why I wrote makezones for DNS zone files.
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