Re: Some thoughts from a non-ASK user

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:44, Brian Candler wrote;

  > It has to be done for every RCPT TO command at SMTP receipt
  > time. As long as it's small and lightweight, e.g. a little C
  > program, it's fine. But there's no way I'd want to start up an
  > entire Python interpreter instance for every recipient!

Sounds like a job for an external process using a named pipe.  You'll
have to make sure that access to the pipe is locked, otherwise
concurrent deliveries would screw things up.  A socket would be
better, but probably more difficult to code the server-side portion
(ASK daemon being the server here).

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