Well, after fighting with the debian for two days and couldn't convince
the exim to
read the gdbm file nor as dbm nor as dbmnz .
i tried solution of installing exim + courier from tar.gz to avoid
using debian
packages but i couldn't convince exim to use the gdbm library through
the ndbm.h a
it always went for the db1 solution.
Any way I found in many news groups the debian discourage the use of
gdbm and does
not handle it very well so as the solution i wanted was limited to top
of 5 users i
decided to go for the lsearch drive and copy courier-imap userdb to
userdb-exim +
exim permission.
next server ill seriously consider slackware :)
Thanks all for answering me
Friso Kuipers wrote:
> On 16 Apr, Phil Pennock wrote:
>
> > On 2001-04-15 at 18:58 +0200, Friso Kuipers gifted us with:
> >> That's my setup you trying to use. Works perfectly, providing courier
> >> and exim use the SAME database library, in your case the Berkeley db
> >> version 1, it seems by the error. If so, you can try the undocumented
> >> (secret?) lookup 'dbmnz' in stead of 'dbm'. This lookup strips the
> >> terminating 0 exim adds to lookup parts and courier doesn't use.
> >
> > It's not undocumented. It's not secret. Well, we don't tell Americans
> > about it, but other than that, it's not secret.
> >
> > Have you looked at the Exim Specification at all? An HTML version is
> > online at <http://www.exim.org/>, or there's a plain-text version which
> > ships as part of the Exim distribution, doc/spec.txt -- this is
> > excellent documentation. If you haven't read it, how can you be making
> > comments about features being undocumented and perhaps secret?
> >
> > Section 6, File And Database Lookups. Read it. Particularly the second
> > item in the list in 6.1 ("Single-key lookup types"):
> >
> > . "dbm": Calls to DBM library functions are used to extract data from the
> > given DBM file by looking up the record with the given key. The
> > terminating binary zero is included in the key that is passed to the DBM
> > library. There is a variant called "dbmnz" which does not include the
> > terminating binary zero in the key.
> >
> > It's mentioned again in 53.5, "Making DBM files".
>
> Not in spec.txt on the computer I write this from. But I just
> established that the file is two years old, so it probably belongs to
> the exim 2.12 that is running on this machine! I see now it's indeed
> mentioned in the docs on an other computer running 3.22.
>
> Point is, dbmnz is needed to do Courier-Imap database lookups, which is
> not obvious.
>
> Mazzel,
> FK
>
>
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