Morten W. Petersen wrote:
> Jeremy Harris skrev:
>> Morten W. Petersen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> I'll try a different tack here. Is it possible with Exim to hook it
>>> up to some external
>>> process or socket which can do the callout check?
>>>
>>> I'm thinking of having some python-based daemon or script running
>>> which can check the
>>> recipient against an SQL database..
>>>
>>
>> Sure, several ways. But, why not just do the DB lookup from Exim?
>>
>> http://exim.org/exim-html-4.69/doc/html/spec_html/ch09.html
>>
>
> Right, that's a useful pointer. :)
>
> But, this Exim instance is in the middle of two mail servers; it processes
> email and weeds out the spam.
>
> So I need to ask the final destination whether it accepts the email
> address,
> and if so, store it in a local database and tell Exim somehow that the
> recipient was accepted. Like callout, but using a more .. "flexible"
> storage mechanism.
>
> Could you point me to a relevant chapter(s) to do just that?
Same place :-) In a lookup, you can do any DB transaction -
insert, select, delete. So do your callout, then do your DB manipulation
based on the results.
-J
