Re: [Exim] local domains from mysql db

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Author: Gareth Down
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] local domains from mysql db
> On 2002-03-25 at 02:25 -0000, exim wrote:
> > > "select domain_name from domains;" will return how many rows from this
> > > little database?
> > >
> > > Hint: answer != 1
> > </phill>
> >
> > True, but when you do "lsearch;/usr/exim/aliases/domains" the answer is

also
> > != 1 isn't it?
>
> lsearch is completely internal to Exim. Exim knows how to construct the
> query. Exim knows how to do "The Right Thing". It supplies an implicit
> key for the search.
>
> Mutating SQL queries to try to do The Right Thing is almost certainly
> The Wrong Thing, The Frigging Stupid Thing, the I Just Spent How Many
> Hours Debugging Something Which Was Silently Changed????? Thing, and
> many others.
>
> > I tried that ("mysql;select domain_name where domain_name = '$domain';")

but
> > that didn't work...
>
> Where are you selecting from?


Sorry I wrote it in the message wrong, hmmm..... I don't know, I suppose
I'll just have to
keep trying different things then.

Cheers for your help anyway,

Gareth
gjd@???