On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Kelley Reynolds wrote:
> What Phillip was saying, it seemed to me, was that Exim was written
> primarily for the 'reading' part and not the 'writing' part. So if one
> database was down, it would move on to the next, and consequently have
> failover.
Yes, precisely. I never envisaged database updating from Exim. Remember
that these database lookups came in as alternatives to lsearch, DBM,
etc, so I saw them as just another way of looking up data. The list was
provided for failover, that was all.
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