[Pkg-exim4-users] pipe

[Ross Boylan]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 01:18 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 01:14:44PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > If the address corresponds to a user account on your system, you could
> > simply set up a pipe in the .forward file in that account's home
> > directory.  The only thing you might need to change would be the exim
> > option that controls whether user .forward files can execute pipes (I'm
> > not sure what the default is).
> 
> I consider that a bad idea and would prefer going through a dedicated
> router/transport pair.
> 
How come?  Just curious.

Ross