Re: [Exim] crazy idea?

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Author: Nico Erfurth
Date:  
To: Alexander Sabourenkov
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] crazy idea?
Alexander Sabourenkov wrote:
> Hello.
>
>
> Yesterday an idea came up on my mind and it seemed quite crazy.
>
> What if instead of reading configuration from file, read it, say,
> from LDAP server?
>
> This way there won't ever be problems with updating configuration
> from some sort of [web] interface, all we need is some way to send
> HUP to the daemon.
>
> This will help in managing hundreds to thousands of separate exims,
> as the situation is with our freebsd-jailed virtual hosting.
>
> What do you think?


Loading the WHOLE configuration from LDAP?
Or do you mean, reading special parts from LDAP, like local_domains?


ciao