>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Knipe <cgknipe@???> writes:
Chris> Because of Exim's modular? support and configurations
Chris> certain users may still even go as far as to not compile in
Chris> and use the Perl DBI if it is not needed, thus the
Chris> performance drop will not affect them at all because its
Chris> not used.
Chris> I'll be really really really happy if something like this
Chris> can be done, because as I mentioned in my previous post, I
Chris> have to (unfortunately), rely on Microsoft technologies for
Chris> certain aspects of my organisation. Now Microsoft
Chris> (regardless of popular belief) is not so bad anymore -
Chris> talking from the 2000 range of products. At the moment, I
Chris> have W2K Professional here, and its a killer.
A killer what ? :-)
Chris> If there are ways to use cross platform databases, I'm
Chris> really interested to hear about them. Having Exim use a MS
Chris> database is just the start of my mission. In the long run,
Chris> I personally, wish to see this type of support regarding
Chris> databases just about in any product or service. Imagine
Chris> Linux's PAM doing authentication from within SQL or other
Chris> Databases?
Your mission ? At any rate, every database is different to work
with. Telnetting is not an option. You have to use the suppliers
libraries which means you haven't got a hope with MSSQL as its Windows
only and exim is Non-Windows.
Chris> You can immediately use all your authentication through any
Chris> application or OS version you like. Be it Windows, be it
Chris> Linux, be it IBM (OS//2), or even a Apple MAC.
Umm, you mean LDAP then. If you have to use Windows 2000 then setup
Active directory and try interfacing to that from exim. I haven't got
a clue if it will work not as Microsofthave done things to Active
directory which isn't quite standard LDAP, surprise.
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
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