On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:51:00AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > I've always assumed that SMTP callbacks (yeah, they're callouts now, sorry
> > :) came from Philip in Exim.
> > Is this correct?
I don't believe so.
> I don't know. Callbacks were introduced in Exim 3.20 in November 2000;
> callforwards did not arrive till Exim 4, just over a year later.
> (Strictly, callbacks were "released" in a testing release called 3.168.
> I don't have details of its release date. 3.16 was released in Auguest
> 2000, so it was sometime between August and November, if it matters that
> much.)
>
> You'll need to search for any evidence of anyone else doing this any
> earlier.
I believe that SAUCE was doing it before exim added the idea, but Ian is on
holiday, and so I can't ask him when his CVS thinks that the idea was
first added. SAUCE was also the first greylist implementation I saw.
Cheers
MBM
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