On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> | > I discovered Exim has a built-in filtering mechanism, and after looking
> | > through the Exim 4 Filtering FAQ, believe it can do everything we need
> | > it to. We'd like to do user-level filtering, for customers who have
> | > chosen to have their mail filtered.
>
> The exim filter language is, while useful, rather simple and certainly
> not general purpose or Turing complete.
... And is obeyed in an interpretive manner - that is, not at all
efficiently. It's being pushed far beyond its original design aims.
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