> > 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.
I hadn't really given it a thought as to where the modules would be, but I
would think that looking in only 1 place would work.
base path would be /usr/lib/exim and under that, you'd have a directory for
routers, transports, authenticators, etc.
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