Re: [EXIM] strange alias file problem

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Author: iqbal
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] strange alias file problem
Well I think it should, cause wouldn't it be useful to have it the
primary key, as the first part, i.e shaun (in example below), since else
you could get multiple entries, with the same email addresses.


Iqbal

Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, iqbal wrote:
>
> > shaun:shaun
> > shaun:anotherone
> >
> > and a few hundred more
> >
> > Now I thought that this was not possible, since the key in the db is the
> > first part, but when I rebuild , I rebuild without any errors.
>
> If you are using dbmbuild, it is not clever. It just updates the file
> with the data lines, in order, so the last one will "win".
>
> > Doesn't the db rebuild look for unique keys, or am I missing something
> > obvious
>
> Are you suggesting that it should give an error?
>
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