On Wed, 16 May 2001, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> It just seems a pity to defeat the beauty of the way Exim works - no
> batching. To have a ssh connection open all the time so when the mail,
> comes it moves at once.
Exim is not designed to handle continuous connections. Apart from the
daemon, its processes are all short lived.
Why don't you implement some application which sits on the Exim host and
holds the continuous connection open. It should read from a named pipe
(FIFO). You can then configure Exim to deliver messages to this pipe
(note: you have to enable FIFOs explicitly in the appendfile transport).
If the application goes away, Exim will simply defer delivery when it
finds nothing is listening to the pipe.
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