Mike,
Finally, someone else that uses the embedded Perl!! Yes, I too had it
operational quickly (more like 30 mins for me ;-{). Things went wrong when
I tried to go beyond "Hello World" however.
Very specifically, accessing DBM files. The two ways in Perl are 'tie' and
'dbmopen()', both of which cause the Perl{} expansion in the Exim filter to
fail. I'm into this for more hours than I care to admit, but the potential
is so alluring....
Philip:
If you're following, who IS responsible for the embedded Perl
implementation? Perhaps this person can shed light one this (and other?)
limitations of using the embedded Perl.
Mike Scott
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Subject: Re: [Exim] limitations with embedded Perl
I couldn't believe that there weren't more examples to be found. But I use
the perl feature and got it working in about 10 minutes! I love it!
Let's see: postgres-based white/black lists are pretty easy to do in perl
and
much easier to read/maintain than as a condition in exim.
I've got a perlscript that looks at a message and decides what folder to
deliver it to. That is nice.
There is lots of other things I intend to do that I probably couldn't do
without perl.
