Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 139] Dynamically loadable lookup modules

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Author: Todd Lyons
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Subject: Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 139] Dynamically loadable lookup modules
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Chris Wilson <chris+exim@???> wrote:
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> Why is it not possible to build SPF as a module? Is it because of the variable
> expansions that it enables? Would it be hard to add to the plugin API to enable
> SPF and other lookups to be built as modules, so that we can get them for RHEL
> without building a custom Exim RPM or building from source?


Somebody has done the work at least for 4.69, don't know how this
patch applies to 4.71. This is from my home built rpm of exim-4.69:

CentOS53[root@ivwm51 ~]# vdir /usr/lib64/exim/4.69-7.5iv/lookups/
total 28
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4240 Aug 20 18:07 dkim.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9072 Aug 20 18:07 mysql.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5680 Aug 20 18:07 spf.so

The patch to make this work is not insignificant though.  It seems to
touch a lot of stuff.
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