tag 309462 + upstream thanks Hi,
John: I am one of the Debian maintainers for your Swaks program. We got a feature request from one of the users: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309462 Marcin is requesting Swaks to have also the functionality to connect to a pipe instead of opening a socket to conduct the SMTP transaction. I started working on it - The patch is simple, but quite invasive - The only way I could implement it is by conditionally creating either the socket (as currently) with this simple modification: my $s_tmp = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddr => $host, PeerPort => $port, Proto => 'tcp', Timeout => $timeout, LocalAddr => $lint); $s = {rd => $s_tmp, wr => $s_tmp}; If a pipe is requested, instead of the socket we create a pair of IO::Handle objects, as pipes can only be opened unidirectionally, +- this way: my ($server_rd,$server_wr) = (IO::Handle->new,IO::Handle->new); open2($server_rd,$server_wr,$pipecmd); $s = {rd => $server_rd, wr => $server_wr}; Reviewing the code, it is not _that_ invasive - You fortunately have shielded away all interaction with the socket in transact() - so it would basically mean checking for the connection type (even forgetting about the first snippet I wrote, sorry). Ok... What does this boil to in the end? I can do the patch... But I'd rather have it integrated upstream. Do you like the idea? Do you want me to send you the patch, or is this description enough and you prefer to roll it out on your own? (or you don't care about the idea ;-) ) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5623-0154 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
