On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Wakko Warner wrote:
> I've been thinking for a while of patching exim so that all lookups,
> authenticators, routers, transports, etc are loadable modules. This would
> make it easier to add modules to the program w/o recompiling the whole
> thing. Be nicer if it were written that once you -HUP the daemon, it'll
> load the required modules depending on the runtime config file.
Just be very careful to think about security issues. You need to be sure
that anything you load dynamically comes from the right place. I'm not
so much thinking of the daemon here, but what happens when an
unprivileged user runs exim.
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