X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/1d717e1c110562fd6bf28478c79f180cafeba776..1e1ddfac79fbcd052f199500a6493c7f79cb8462:/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt index 2569ad3af..3beab4b9c 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt +++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt @@ -808,6 +808,59 @@ Issues: hosts_require_ocsp will fail + +Dovecot authenticator via inet socket +------------------------------------ +If Dovecot is configured similar to :- + +service auth { +... +#SASL + inet_listener { + name = exim + port = 12345 + } +... +} + +then an Exim authenticator can be configured :- + + dovecot-plain: + driver = dovecot + public_name = PLAIN + server_socket = dovecot_server_name 12345 + server_tls = true + server_set_id = $auth1 + +If the server_socket does not start with a / it is taken as a hostname (or IP); +and a whitespace-separated port number must be given. + + + +Twophase queue run fast ramp +---------------------------- +To include this feature, add to Local/Makefile: + EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUE_RAMP=yes + +If the (added for this feature) main-section option "queue_fast_ramp" (boolean) +is set, and a two-phase ("-qq") queue run finds, during the first phase, a +suitably large number of message routed for a given host - then (subject to +the usual queue-runner resource limits) delivery for that host is initiated +immediately, overlapping with the remainder of the first phase. + +This is incompatible with queue_run_in_order. + +The result should be a faster startup of deliveries when a large queue is +present and reasonable numbers of messages are routed to common hosts; this +could be a smarthost case, or delivery onto the Internet where a large proportion +of recipients hapen to be on a Gorilla-sized provider. + +As usual, the presence of a configuration option is associated with a +predefined macro, making it possible to write portable configurations. +For this one, the macro is _OPT_MAIN_QUEUE_FAST_RAMP. + + + -------------------------------------------------------------- End of file --------------------------------------------------------------