Re: [exim] Log stats to DB?

On 2007-08-29 at 15:28 -0500, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:
> It would be nice if Exim included a means of executing queries without
> forcing me to use what seems like a side-effect of the 'warn' feature.
> I mean, technically it's not a "warning", you know.

That would be the "continue" ACL modifier which was added in Exim 4.67
for just this reason. See the "NewStuff" file which comes with the Exim
docs, 4.67 item 17.

> RedHat 5 package maintainers are still rolling out 4.63 and so that's
> what's in CentOS 5 also. Get the upstream guys to update, and I'm on
> board with making the config changes. Likely if you change a lot from
> 4.63 to 4.68 then that upstream change will be a long time coming what
> with fear of breaking BC and whatnot.

Exim breaks backwards compatibility with changes such as Exim 3 to Exim
4; otherwise, problems are extremely rare; the only instance which comes
to mind was a case of a bug-fix exposing that people were relying upon
buggy configs (0 vs 0s as a time-period).

Variables get renamed but the old variable name is kept around for
backwards compatibility. Etc.

-Phil