On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Marc Haber wrote:
> I have been asked today if I could make exim do SMTP AUTH against a
> courier-imap userdb database. I found out it would probably be easiest
> to do if exim had a string expansion operator that expands to the
> result of a given shell command such as in ${shell "courier-auth $USER
> $PASS"}.
>
> There surely is a reason why such an operator doesn't exist in exim 3,
> and as usual I can't imagine that reason. Can anybody please tell me?
Nobody asked for it. Actually, that's not true. It is somewhere on a list
for Exim 4, I think, but as a general "runcommand" option, not forcing
you to use a shell.
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