Re: [Exim] crazy idea?

Hello.

Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Alexander Sabourenkov wrote:
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>>Yes, the whole of it. As I understand, it is read on initial startup
>>and restarts only,
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> That is incorrect. Every time the Exim binary is (re-)executed, it reads
> its configuration file. Re-execution happens for every delivery (to
> regain privilege). Also, any incoming messages not via the daemon start
> up a new Exim process.

Thank you, I almost figured this out myself. I'm being exceptionally dumb at times :-(.

Can you clarify if command-line options get passed along with every call to execve()?
Also, is there any hardcoded list of options to pass along?


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