Yes, I was looking at a slightly older version of exim (4.10 I think -
although it may be even slightly earlier).
If this feature is already in Exim cool.
As for the reasons to use this, I wanted to update a row in the database
after the file is delivered without having to write a stored procedure to
return an unneeded useless value. Yes, I could do that with the pipe
command, but since almost everything was already in Exim to do what I
wanted, I thought a slight modification to it would be the best approach.
Appears as if the feature may already be in Exim though, so... Cool.
Later
Rob
> Rob Butler wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I was wondering the other day if it would be possible to use exim's SQL
> > based lookups to perform inserts into a database. From looking at the
code
> > in Exim, I can see this is not possible because the Exim SQL lookups
check
> > that a result set with data is returned. If a result set and data are
not
> > returned the lookups fail.
>
> ....
>
> > Comments?
>
> This was added somewhere between exim 4.10 and exim 4.20 IIRC.
> Exim will return the number of affected rows for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
> queries.
>
> Nico
>
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