Re: [exim] Default enabling of dnsdb

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 07:55:39PM +0100, Mike Cardwell wrote:
> Does anyone other than Bill have an opinion? I still contend that there
> is no disadvantage to doing it. Unless you're actually mad enough to
> think that adding 4KB of useful code, is equivalent to, "bloat".

Every single one of my Exim configurations uses dnsdb because I need
to do tests for the presence of PTR records, which is impossible
without dnsdb. The regular reverse DNS lookups also do forward
lookups, which are fine, but in some circumstances you need to test
just for he

I can understand mysql/postgres/sqllite being optional, given that any
particular user will generally only use one (or fewer) of them. Just
never made much sense why dnsdb was left optional, unless there was an
issue of platform portability for some reason.

> Before I remembered that most Exim installations don't have dnsdb
> available to them.
>
> That's happened to me several times in the past. I've been asked how to
> do something, and responded with a dnsdb solution only to realise that
> dnsdb isn't compiled in.

Yeah, that is frustrating. I've run into that a few times too, again
usually with regards to testing for PTR records.

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Dean Brooks
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