Hi,
I am facing the same problem trying to port dbmail to Gentoo Linux. I
think I
read somewhere that this was a planned feature for 1.0.. at least I hope so.
regards,
Cedric
On October 17, 2002 01:44 pm, Paul Stevens wrote:
> [ this one didn't make it to the list during the blackout, I think ]
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I'm new to dbmail as wel as the list. We run a small debian shop here in
> the Netherlands. I encountered dbmail while taking over maintenance of a
> machine previously maintained by IC & S, I think :-)
>
> At first all I wanted was to migrate my client away from dbmail to a stock
> uw-imapd solution, but the more I look into dbmail, the more I like it.
>
> I've been working to roll my own debian packages based on the cvs version.
> No sweat there. But there is at least one major issue that prevents me from
> being able to adhere to debian-policy AFAIK.
>
> All db connection parameters are compile-time options only which makes it
> impossible to implement a single binary on a variety of configurations.
>
> Before I start a duplicate effort, has anyone been planning or implementing
> an external configuration mechanism for connecting to the database ?
> Perhaps expanding dbmail.conf to include these parameters would by
> feasable.
>
> comments anyone ?
