Re: [exim] Feature Request - Exim needs more MySQL Support

On 6/7/06 5:50 PM, "Marc Perkel" <marc@???> wrote:

> I may be missing something by MySQL support in Exim seems to be limited
> to lookups rather than just the ability to randomly run any MySQL
> command I want. It also seems to lack MySQL support in the filter language.
>
> I'm in the process of trying to do some really kool stuff and fighting
> the Exim syntax to get anything done. However - I might be missing
> something as I often do.

Until Exim receives such a capability, a workaround we use is to do such
things by doing
${readsocket ....}
pointing at a suitable (Python) daemon. For our daemons, we can pass some
data rather than the entire query, with the daemon doing one or more
queries.

It would indeed be nice to be able to produce arbitrary queries within Exim
(not just for MySQL although that's the one we use).

--John (who did pick up Dvorak's favorable reference to your filtering on
TWiT recently)