On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Marcus Barczak wrote:
> Ultimately i'd love to just, as Philip mentions here "have exim write
> directly to the socket", to cut out the middle layer connector.
Exim has a ${readsocket expansion, which writes a string to a socket and
reads a response. You could arrange to discard the response.
> Basically what I want to do is point the transport at the UNIX domain
> socket and have exim pump the message into it and move on - is this
> possible?
There isn't a "socket" transport analagous to the "pipe" transport.
However, you can use the appendfile transport to write the message to a
named pipe (which is essentially the same thing) if you set the
allow_fifo option.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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