Re: [Exim] exim4, smtp transport, and shadow transports.

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: David M. Wilson
CC: Exim Users List
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim4, smtp transport, and shadow transports.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, David M. Wilson wrote:

> http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20021202/046882.html
>
> Hi group, according to above list archive entry exim4 was supposed to
> support shadow transports on the SMTP transport. Is this possible? My
> attempts here have been unsuccessful, dying with an error message
> telling me it still isn't possible.


I'm afraid it still isn't possible.

> If they simply haven't been implemented, and are relatively trivial to
> implement (I can invest some time in this) I would be willing to try to
> modify exim myself.


They might be trivial if you are happy for them to run as the "exim"
user, like the smtp transport. The difficulty is in allowing the full
generality of all possible kinds of transport because local transports
can run as any user.

> Alternatively, is there an easy way to duplicate an incoming message os
> that it could be delivered to two transports independantly?


"unseen"


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