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