Re: [Exim] database lookups & cdbs

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 11:12:26AM -0000 sysadmin wrote :

> Would it seem sensible therfore that as a general rule anyone wanting to do
> lookups (NIS, LDAP or other, etc.) for variables like "local_domains" should
> really generate a cdb file from their master database periodically and
> atomically move the new cdb to replace the existing cdb?

Absolutely. As another poster said earlier it has huge advantages in terms of
your system's resilience to parts of it being down.

This method means that is your LDAP or SQL is down you mail keeps flowing,
sure you probably cannot bring new accounts online but at least you are not
flat on your face.

Centralised solutions look good on paper with one database feeding all the
information out for the whole enterprise, the downside is that, if that
central database isn't there neither is anything else.

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Ian