----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Burton West" <roger@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Email Aliases DB?
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:46:30PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote:
>
> >Does Exim support MSSQL, and if not, Philip, will you be able to perhaps
> >code support for SQL Server if I am able to provide you with the data
> >structures / headers for the MSSQL Server? (I think I have both the socket > >and TCP/IP (Port 1433) headers available should it be needed)
>
> This starts to look as if it might instead be worth putting in support
> for Perl DBI - this would then give instant support for pretty much all
> the databases that are available at present, with a slight speed penalty
> relative to current methods (and of course requiring programming in perl
> rather than in C).
>
> It's a shame that there doesn't seem to be a C/C++ library comparable to
> DBI, but until there is, I think this is an avenue worth investigating.
Hi Roger,
I haven't heard anything from Philip yet in regards to this, but if it is
going to work, by all means. I can't really see why not.
Because of Exim's modular? support and configurations certain users may
still even go as far as to not compile in and use the Perl DBI if it is not
needed, thus the performance drop will not affect them at all because its
not used.
I'll be really really really happy if something like this can be done,
because as I mentioned in my previous post, I have to (unfortunately), rely
on Microsoft technologies for certain aspects of my organisation. Now
Microsoft (regardless of popular belief) is not so bad anymore - talking
from the 2000 range of products. At the moment, I have W2K Professional
here, and its a killer.
If there are ways to use cross platform databases, I'm really interested to
hear about them. Having Exim use a MS database is just the start of my
mission. In the long run, I personally, wish to see this type of support
regarding databases just about in any product or service. Imagine Linux's
PAM doing authentication from within SQL or other Databases?
You can immediately use all your authentication through any application or
OS version you like. Be it Windows, be it Linux, be it IBM (OS//2), or even
a Apple MAC.
But in anycase...
Thanks for the info, and I guess the discussion should rather take place
between some of the developers of Exim from here on ?
