Re: [exim] can mail be sent by dropping mail files into exim queue

2006-05-26 Thread Chris Meadors
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:21 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > OK, sorry I have misunderstood you! Yes, of course the php script could be > used to send > emails by SMTP. I know how to do that and it is no big deal but... having > said that I must add > that php is not the best tool for the job.

Re: [exim] can mail be sent by dropping mail files into exim queue

2006-05-26 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there again, On 26 May 2006 at 16:09, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > Of course, PHP has a built-in function for sending mail by > SMTP; it's a fertile source of security holes in > poorly-written code, but is there a good reason you > couldn't use that directly in this case? OK, sorry I have misund

Re: [exim] can mail be sent by dropping mail files into exim queue

2006-05-26 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:04:55PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Dear Chris, > > Thank you very much for your answer! > > On 26 May 2006 at 16:00, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > > You can (I presume) do this; the format is documented in > > the spec, e.g. here, > > http://www.exim.org/exim-ht

Re: [exim] can mail be sent by dropping mail files into exim queue

2006-05-26 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear Chris, Thank you very much for your answer! On 26 May 2006 at 16:00, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > You can (I presume) do this; the format is documented in > the spec, e.g. here, > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch52.html I > think that to do this safely you need to wr

Re: [exim] can mail be sent by dropping mail files into exim queue

2006-05-26 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:15:42PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question about sending mail through exim without using SMTP to > connect to exim. > That is I have a script that generates mail files on a disk (currently its > format is in accordance > with another MTA) a

Re: [exim] can mail be sent by dropping mail files into exim queue

2006-05-26 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello again, Allow me to give you a little more background as I would like to know if what I need to achieve is possible with exim. We have been running Mercury on Windows but due to constantly increasing load we are thinking of changing to exim. There is only one problem here. We have a php scri

[exim] can mail be sent by dropping mail files into exim queue

2006-05-25 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I have a question about sending mail through exim without using SMTP to connect to exim. That is I have a script that generates mail files on a disk (currently its format is in accordance with another MTA) and wonder if I could still use this script to send emails. The current MTA sim