Re: [Exim] How to: exim + Oracle + Perl + DBI

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Author: Paul Kelly
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To: Paul Makepeace
CC: exim-users, Chris Lightfoot
Subject: Re: [Exim] How to: exim + Oracle + Perl + DBI
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:

> Below is an overview and sample of how to issue SQL queries against an
> Oracle database using perl and its DBI & DBD::Oracle modules. I have
> just included snippets of exim.conf and a complete perl start_up.pl
> rather than a complete solution.


I had a go at writing a C based oracle OCI exim lookup a few months ago
with std exim connection caching like the mysql/postgresql lookups,
hopefully phil will integrate it within exim 4. I have done some testing
and it seems to work ok but be aware this has never been used in a
production environment.

getit here:

http://www.virtual.org.uk/exim/exim-oracle.tar.gz

Paul Kelly