Re: [Exim] MSSQL / FreeTDS

> > >From the exim 3.x days... Has anyone made any progress really in regards to
> > getting exim to query MSSQL databases? I have not spent any time on this
> > just yet, so feel free to tell me to RTFM...
>
> There are no native MS SQL client libraries for linux, which is the root
> of the problem.

I don't believe this is true.

> > Also, I noticed briefly the new exim 4.23 has support for perl / command
> > lookups. From what I understand, it will be possible to do queries to MSSQL
> > via a perl script, and use perl modules to access the MSSQL DB?
>
> Again, the lack of drivers is an issue. There has been SOME work on
> getting perl to talk to mssql via odbc, and I think there is a
> commercial odbc driver that may work, but the problem is that MS is not
> releasing the spec for the protocol (business as usual.) There has been
> some work in doing a perl relay thing, where perl on linux talks to perl
> on Windows which actually uses the windows odbc driver to talk to the
> database. Kludge.

MSSQL is Sybase. I have used the Sybase driver to query an MSSQL7 server at
work.

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