Re: [exim] Shadow transports

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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A: Stuart Gall
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] Shadow transports
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Stuart Gall wrote:

> Why cant shadow transports be used on non-local transports ?


Because that was never implemented. Back in Exim 3 days, Exim gave up
root privilege in its main delivery process before doing any remote
deliveries; this would have made it particularly complicated. Nowadays
it's a bit different, so might be easier, but I haven't looked at it.

> It would be useful if there was some facility to call a script when a
> non-loacal transport successfully delivers a message


This has been on the Wish List for some time, I seem to recall. Nobody
has got round to doing anything about it yet.

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