Re: [exim] Transport filter via socket

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Author: Peter Bowyer
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Transport filter via socket
2008/12/23 Oliver von Bueren <maillist@???>:
> Adam Osuchowski wrote:
>> Transport filtering set up by transport_filter option is not so good solution
>> on heavy load mail servers. Messages filtering through external service
>> accessible via unix or inet socket (in style of readsocket) would be more
>> efficient then spawning external command and filtering through pipe on every
>> mail separately. Is it planned such a functionality? It would be nice to see
>> it.
>>
>>
> Did you look at dlfunc (in the Docs "11.5 Expansion items", ). With this
> you can call C code from within exim. Not exactly what you asked for,
> but with this you can do a lot I think.
>
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch11.html#SECTexpansionitems


There's also the ${readsocket} expansion, but this doesn't (AFAICR)
provide analagous functionality to a transport filter. Maybe one for
the wishlist....

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