Re: Some thoughts from a non-ASK user

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:53:50AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:
> 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).

Yep, socket was what I asked for. I don't think it's significantly harder to
code.

Brian.

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