Re: [Exim] GDBM

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Dave C.
CC: exim-users, Gabor Z. Papp
Subject: Re: [Exim] GDBM
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Dave C. wrote:

> Do you happen to have any idea what format th /etc/userdb.dat is that
> Courier IMAP uses? 'file' seemed to think it was gdbm/ndbm 1.0, but when
> I managed to get exim compiled to use that, it still couldnt open it.


No idea. Sorry.

> Exims return db's each consisted of multiple files with different
> extensions with this arrangement, instead of just one file, so I suspect
> thats not really what it was...


GDBM, using the ndbm compatibility interface, makes a single file, but
creates two hard links to it, with .dir and .pag extensions.

Exim 4 has support for using GDBM in native mode.

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