On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Peter Lister wrote:
> I'm not syaing "don't",
Phew! :-)
> just suggesting that (a) the complicated stuff is
> probably already available via Perl DBI (which as MB says has already
> addressed many of the problems that Exim is likely to hit)
That's true, but there is a performance worry.
> and (b) that
> for some purposes an aliasfile like system keeps SQL away from the Exim
> configuration, partly prompted by Nigel's observation that some "easy"
> things can sensibly be handled differently to "hard" things. I don't see
> how (b) involves a "new syntax",
Well, suppose you want to use MYSQL for aliasing. In the alias file
director you have
search_type=mysql
query = what to write here?
That's where the new syntax is needed. In my current implementation you
write something like
query = select addresses from aliases where name='$local_part'
where you can choose the names of the fields to suit your existing
database.
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