Hi,
I am trying to setup Exim to use MariaDB for lookups. I would like to inject
values for the DB connection from environment variables into the configuration
file. This is what I am trying to do as a test:
keep_environment = MARIADB_SERVER
# MYSQL_SERVER = mariadb
MYSQL_SERVER = ${env{MARIADB_SERVER}{$value} fail}
MYSQL_USER = exim
MYSQL_PASSWORD = eximpw
MYSQL_DB = mail
hide mysql_servers = MYSQL_SERVER/MYSQL_DB/MYSQL_USER/MYSQL_PASSWORD
together with a lookup like this:
domainlist local_domains = ${lookup mysql{SELECT name FROM domains}}
However, when trying this Exim throws these errors:
2025-03-25 15:34:58 2025-03-25 14:34:58 failed to expand "${lookup mysql{SELECT
name FROM domains}}" while checking a list: lookup of "SELECT name FROM
domains" gave DEFER: MYSQL connection failed: Unknown server host
'${env{MARIADB_SERVER}{$value} fail}' (-2)
which makes me think that string expansion wasn't done. -bP shows the relevant
options as:
exim exim -bP |grep -i -e mysql -e mariadb
keep_environment = MARIADB_SERVER
mysql_servers = ${env{MARIADB_SERVER}{$value} fail}/mail/exim/eximpw
and -be successfully expands the string:
exim -be 'mysql_servers = ${env{MARIADB_SERVER}{$value} fail}/mail/exim/eximpw'
mysql_servers = mariadb/mail/exim/eximpw
Any idea what I am doing wrong? Many thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Frank.
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