RE: [Exim] limitations with embedded Perl

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Dan Muey
CC: Mike Scott, exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] limitations with embedded Perl
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dan Muey wrote:

> I'm with you Mike, I'm interested in finding some documentation about it.
> If you could embed Perl into the mail processing guts you could really
> implement some powerful features.


There's not much to say about it other than what the manual says
(chapter 12 - just over a page long). I don't use it because it is
clearly expensive, but there are people that do.

The provided facility is the ability to call Perl from within an Exim
expansion string. This is not a general "let Perl loose on the message"
feature, though I suppose it could be if you called it from a
local_scan() function.

> > Why is there so
> > little information on its use and capabilities (or limitations)?


I suspect it is not widely used, but that's just a guess.

Philip

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