On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > Is it possible, and if so,
> > what is the FORMAT and PERSMISSIONS, to write
> > a file to the spool DIR of the mail server,
> > so it can be delivered with exim, and not ColdFusion.
>
> You _don't_ want to do this. If you want to learn the hard way, the
> Exim manual (specification) discusses spool file formats in enough
> detail for you to figure out what you need by examining the contents of
> some live spool files.
If you have your hands on code that is capable of opening and writing
files, then surely you can write code that fires up a copy of
exim -t -oi
in a separate process, and writes the message down its standard input.
That is much the safest way to do it - let Exim sort its own spool files
out.
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