On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:28, Dickenson, Steven wrote:
> There was a patch a while ago that made the local_scan function dynamically
> loadable. I'm not sure if it's since been included in the base source, but
> the Debian package has it applied.
Its packaged with the SA-Exim releases - see
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html
> Beyond local_scan, where do you see a need for a plugin? Just about every
> other aspect of Exim is so easily extensible, using some external resource
> or program is trivial.
This is actually more a question for the exim-dev list, although a
little premature in that we need to nail down the how things should be
done before we commit to what should be done...
A potential answer would be that the stuff with a defined linkage
interface - ie
* routers
* transports
* lookups
* authenticators
* acls
* local_scan (which is sort of the odd one out here)
could all be dynamically loaded. This would allow better binary
packaging for example - ie you don't end up having to make a tailored
exim for each potential situation, or making a fat daemon which then has
other dependencies such as requiring 3 lots of sql support libraries.
Nigel.
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