Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Andrzej Filip wrote:
>
>> Related "Exim Wish List":
>> 1) *make exim capable to conduct callouts over unix sockets*
>> * in current version callouts are not supported for lmtp transport
>> with "socket=..." parameter
>> 2) *make exim capable to use AUTH for LMTP callouts*
>> * lack of AUTH makes sense only for SMTP callouts
>> * some people wanted to use "LMTP to another host"
>
> I have added these items to the wish list. They constitute a major
> re-working of the callout handling (which makes a lot of sense, but is
> not trivial).
I knew it is only "simple to request" :)
[ I took a brief look at the callout code ]
BTW How hard would be to make exim accept incoming LMTP connections ?
[ With providing "value added" to handling incoming connections ]
I think that using LMTP for communication between intranet servers or gateway
to internal server may provide enough advantages to make it worth doing.
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