Re: [exim] How about an all MySQL version of Exim?

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Author: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] How about an all MySQL version of Exim?
* On 01/09/06 19:27 +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
| Marc Perkel wrote:
| > Here's a radical idea. A version of Exim that is all MySQL.
| >
|
| With the exception of the users message store, which is not exim's job
| anyway, you can pretty much chuck all the config into a database
| already. Black, white, greylist information, user lists, domain
| routing, spam settings, virus settings can all easily be pulled from a
| db rather than flat files. this is how the abmx backend works, for example.
|
| What's radical, or even new, about your idea?
|
| (Oh, and we use postgres of course, not ToySQL :)


Hi Martin,

With all the work the people have put in, the next thing you are likely
to do is start calling some MTAs "Toys". It's prejudicial. Please
respect the work done by others and the time they invest. PgSQL is not
everything.


        cheers
       - wash 
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