[exim-dev] [Bug 818] Allow SMTP transport to deliver to a un…

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Author: Magnus Holmgren
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Old-Topics: [exim-dev] [Bug 818] New: Allow SMTP transport to deliver to a unix socket.
Subject: [exim-dev] [Bug 818] Allow SMTP transport to deliver to a unix socket.
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818




--- Comment #2 from Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@???> 2009-05-17 17:14:35 ---
On onsdagen den 25 februari 2009, Phil Pennock wrote:
> How would the lmtp transport be deprecatable by letting the
> smtp transport deliver to a socket?
>
> They're used for different protocols. LMTP gives per-recipient responses
> post-DATA. LMTP is spoken by other applications. Eg, I use LMTP to
> deliver to Cyrus.


The smtp transport talks LMTP if you set protocol = lmtp. The lmtp transport
can not only deliver to a UNIX socket, however, but also by running an
executable and talking to it over stdin/stdout.


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