Re: [Exim] [REQ] exim transport for Kannel

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Stipe Tolj
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] [REQ] exim transport for Kannel
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Stipe Tolj wrote:

> Is there a way to have an Exim instance that "stays" allive and gets
> all message that are transported over a specific transport?.


No. Apart from the daemon, which just fork a new process for each
incoming message, Exim does use long-running processes. All Exim
processes that do the actual work are short lived.

What you perhaps need is a separate, long-running process that is
attached to a Unix domain socket or a named pipe. Exim should be able to
deliver to a named pipe as if it were a file. Check out the allow_fifo
option in the appendfile transport. But you will have to write the
long-running process yourself.

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