Moderator, please don't approve the previous message I sent from an
incorrect address...
Paul,
If you know C (or have a good friend who knows C and will work for beer)
look at the README file in src/lookups/README. The interface for writing
lookups is very well documented and easy to understand - and if you were to
submit an oracle lookup to exim, I'm sure you'd get a few cases of beer
yourself.
Just looking at the mysql.c lookup, it doesn't look like there is too much
"work" to be done, it would just take some time to develop, test and debug.
Also, Oracle make it harder for you because its a pain in the backside to
find their C libraries...
Just a thought...
Oh, it also occurred to me to look for a more open oracle library to make it
easier to add support into exim, and I came across this:
http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-poitscka/
This looks like it's a fairly robust and mature library for Oracle 8 that
allows you to do all the sorts of things you'd expect.
Nathan.
-----Original Message-----
From: exim-users-admin@??? [
mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org]On
Behalf Of Paul Makepeace
Sent: 22 February 2001 20:33
To: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [Exim] Oracle & exim
From: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???>
> > Are there moves afoot to have exim have the facility to lookup
> > using an Oracle database along with its ability to work with
> > {My,Postgre}SQL? Or, perhaps has someone done it using Perl's DBI &
> > DBD::Oracle?
>
> Not to my knowledge.
OK, I'll have a go thru' the perl/DBI route.
> The latest per-release ChangeLog files on the ftp site are there in both
> .gz and non-gz forms, since somebody previously complained, but I didn't
> take time to retro-provide older versions.
FWIW, if they're on the Web site they're easier to find (for some of us) and
best of all get indexed so ?q=exim+oracle would lead me to the changelog and
hopefully version number.. in an ideal world.
Paul
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