2009/10/12 Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> > Srdan Dukic: > > Hi, > > > > I have a program which currently uses the '/usr/sbin/sendmail' command to > > send mail through postfix, but am looking for a replacement for this > command > > as it is slow. I can see that there is a socket under > > '/var/spool/postfix/private/smtp' and was wondering if it was possible to > > use this to send mail instead of going through the sendmail binary? I've > > looked through the documentation but can't seem to get an answer. Is this > > possible? Do I have the right socket? > > > > I've connected to the socket, but it doesn't give the standard SMTP > > responses, but instead after entering a 'HELO ...' line, it comes back > with > > 'status' and then just waits. > > Instead of using the UNDOCUMENTED postfix-internal sockets, use > the Postfix SMTP socket. > > Programs that manipulate UNDOCUMENTED postfix-internal resources > are not supported. > > Wietse >
Are there any non-internet, unix domain socket(s) which can be used to send mail to the smtp daemon? i.e. is there any *documented* way to give mail to postfix for remote delivery that doesn't involve the tcp/ip stack (other than the sendmail binary). Thank you, -- Srđan Đukić
