> On 14 Jan 2020, at 15:43, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > > Thierry Fournier: >> Hi, >> >> What do you think about delivery target executing natively Lua code ? >> >> It does the same think than ?pipe", but much quickly because there >> are no fork/exec and compile/recompile Lua code only at start (or >> if required). >> >> In other way, the Lua postix API can embed convenience function >> like integrated sendmail+postdrop process, header manipulation >> meta-data (I mean RCPT TO, MAIL FROM, ...) and something like >> that. I think also to email content manipulation but it is a >> more complex subject whoch require a lot of code or complex >> dependencies. This kind of feature allow writing easyly and >> efficiently email filters. >> >> Any opinion ? > > Define 'mail delivery target'. I notice that you are talking about > INTAKE (sendmail/postdrop/SMTP commmands) not DELIVERY, so your > choice of words is unfortunate.
Maybe my choice of words is bad. By mail delivery target I mean something like the “pipe” program which is used as transport target. > I won't speculate about this further, but I would like to point > out that Postfix is designed to be extensible by pluggging stuff > into protocol interfaces (policy, milter, smtp, lmtp) as well as > the tcp and socketmap lookup table interfaces. I will check for this ways. Today the "pipe” transport is the most easy way for my service. When I reach performances issue with many email per second, I probably will use LMTP server. Thierry
