On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:06:35PM +0200, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> Im not sure I see why embedding perl in a MTA would be any great advantage .. but
Suppose your MTA doesn't produce bounces messages as attachments. With
perl you could make it do that.
Suppose your MTA can connect to a variety of databases (exim can,
natively) and you want to benchmark it -- you can with perl *inside the
MTA*
Suppose your MTA can connect to a variety of LDAP servers (exim can,
natively) and you want to generate LDAP queries on the fly to implement
a variety of name resolution strategies and put summary and status
messages in your error replies (e.g. do you mean Tim or James
McDonald?), guess what, perl can do that.
As for Apache, the perl api is actually richer than the C one bizarrely
enough and is a damn site easier to use.
Paul
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