Re: [Exim] Using perl in a router for lookups

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Author: robert rotman
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To: Gary Palmer
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Using perl in a router for lookups
Hi,

I did it once and it worked ok.
but i donot really see what's your problem (maby my bad english;).
it's really easy!
do somthing like:

perl_alias:
driver = smartuser
new_address = ${perl{your_perl_subroutine}{${local_part}}{${domain}}}

robert

On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Gary Palmer wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> This may sound strange but is there a way to use the embeded perl
> functionality to do aliasfile style lookups? It could be a very
> powerful tool, and to be perfectly honest, although it may sound like
> a performance hog at first, I don't believe it will be that bad
> (although I obviously have no figures to back up that assumption since
> I haven't figured out how to do it yet :) )
>
> The primary reason for asking is that we have an in-house database for
> real-time user provisioning which would be really easy to hook into
> exim using perl (if we could get a perl-based director). We did it
> for Auth SMTP and it works great. Without having perl directors
> available, we'd have to go hack it into the C code, which would have
> to be done each release, and is obviously more of a pain.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
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