On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Alexander V Alekseev wrote:
> Someone needs to write such a daemon, to make it a more general
> approach. The main trouble is, that it has to support full exim "string
> expansion", to be general. It seems not to be a good idea.
Why does it have to support full string expansion? Why does it have to
understand anything? You can write a daemon that just reads from the
socket, passes the query to the database, and returns the result. It
just keeps a copy of the query and result so that it can save a database
call next time. Someone could write such a daemon for one database, or a
more general one that, say, undertood a database name at the start of
the string.
All the string expansion can be done in Exim before sending the query
to the socket.
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