On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Greg Ward wrote:
> On 14 March 2002, Garrett Richmond said:
> > I'm currently running a NT based Imail server that uses a MSSQL user
> > database. I would like to convert it to linux and run exim but I need to
> > keep the SQL user database. I know exim can use sql via a perl integration
> > but I am concerned about system load. The machine is a dual 600 mhz with
> > 512mb ram serving about 7000 users. I would appreciate any input anyone has
> > on the subject.
>
> Exim can do SQL queries on its own -- it doesn't need Perl for that.
But only MySQL and PostgreSQL (Exim 3) plus Oracle (Exim 4). It doesn't
have MSQL support, because nobody has asked for it. Indeed, I only
recently because aware of the existence of MSQL.
1. It would probably not be too hard for somebody who is familiar with
programming for MSQL to take the code for MySQL and hack it around to
provide an MSQL interface. Is this a project worth doing? How widely is
MSQL used?
2. How hard would it be for you to convert to MySQL?
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