On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Well, I found the problem I was having doing a db lookup into a Cyrus IMAPD
> mailboxes.db file... Cyrus uses BTREE-style files, and Exim uses only
> HASH-style files, and assumes that's all you'd ever want to look into.
Aha! I'd never considered that possibility.
> The attached patch modifies the behavior of exim-4.04 (only for when db3 is
> in use) to allow the file to be any format if it's being opened in read-only
> mode, but specify DB_HASH if it's not (like when exim is actually creating a
> new db file). This works great for me, exim has no trouble reading
> previously created exim db files, but now can also read Cyrus db files.
Please send me the patch privately, and I'll take a look at it. It
didn't make it onto the mailing list, because you attached it rather
than including it inline.
> [ exim-dblookup-patch of type application/octet-stream deleted ]
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