Re: [exim] Next Exim release

On 2015-12-10, Bjørnar Ness <bjornar.ness@???> wrote:
> I have a few requests for the next exim release:
>
> 1) transfer acl_m and acl_c variables to bounces and autoreplies. This will make
> it possible to use this data for routing or transport without having
> to use hacks to transfer this data in headers

I've been doing that hack for years and don't see it as a big problem.
except DSNs ...I can't use that hack for "accepted" DSNs.
so +1

> 2) lookup cache (do_cache) 3rd option:
>
> the do_cache = false in lookups is actually a flush_cache = true, I
> was not aware
> of this until recently. It would be nice to add a option to not flush
> the entire cache,
> but just to prevent caching the current query

query type lookups can be uniqued by using a unique value (eg: current
time in microseconds ) in a query-language comment.

> 3) write_file command to be able to write data to a file, this could
> be useful for not
> having to fork a shell process to accomplish same

+1
curretly the only way to write a file is by doing a delivery

> 4) beeing able to supply tls certificate/key as a string in addition
> to a file/path

I thought that was already possible,

> 5) ability to log a custom element to atleast message loglines:
>
> My exim config behaves as both mx and a submission, and uses different acl's
> and options based on the SERVER_TYPE macro. I would like to have the
> possibility to add this expansion to each logline.

can't use two different log files?

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