Re: [Exim] Keeping aliases in a DBM hash...

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Trevor Sky Garside
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Keeping aliases in a DBM hash...
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Trevor Sky Garside wrote:

> > (2) Write a program to create your DBM file, add one key to it, then
> > remove that key. That should leave a valid DBM file that happens to
> > contain no entries.
> >
>
> I had already tried this; this is what causes Exim to freeze the messages.


Presumably this is caused by the DBM library. Maybe changing to a
different DBM library would help here, if you wanted to pursue this.
(It seems a rather broken state not to allow a DBM database to be
empty.)

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