Re: [EXIM] Mysql and exim

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Author: Manar Hussain
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Mysql and exim

I personally would rather not have this dependancy even if I had the
choice. We're much happier having a script which (re)creates an aliases
file as it is changed and something to then shovel it in place.

Manar

>I've trawled through all th archives (well most of them) and come across
>a few articles relating to exim and Mysql linking up, has there ever
>been a solution to this , or will there ever be.
>
>I would like to get my aliases into Mysql, and have exim to the look up
>from there, that way I can change (or user can change) there aliases
>(hence email address) without to much fuss. I have Mysql running on one
>machine and exim on another, the only way I can conceive of doing it
>currently is to get users to modify there aliases, in the db on machine
>one, then get perl or something using DBI etc etc to run from the mail,
>machine to query Mysql , and rewrite the alias file. This to me seems
>really messy.
>
>Thanks Iqbal
>
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