Re: [Exim] shell command string expansion

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] shell command string expansion
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 16:01:11 -0500 (CDT), Phil Brutsche
<pbrutsch@???> wrote:
>> I see. Any ideas how to make exim do SMTP AUTH against a courier
>> userdb without runcommand?
>
>Use perl to run the external command - it's probably the closest we can
>come to "runcommand".


The perl overhead is huge, though.

>If the Courier userdb is in a database format perl can understand directly
>it's likely there's no need to run an external command.


Unfortunately, the Debian packages for courier use a different db
package than the Debian packages for exim do. A few weeks ago, I tried
to solve that, but failed due to lack of knowledge.

Greetings
Marc

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