Exim4, Sarge and libberkeleydb-perl

[Markus Zahn]

Hello exim4-maintainers,

I'm currently testing updates from woody to sarge. Currently we are 
using Exim4 on woody and an additional Perl script to gather pop before 
smtp data. This data is stored in a Berkeley DB file using 
libberkeleydb-perl and Exim4 accesses this database to determine the 
list of hosts allowed to relay mail.

With woody, both Exim4 and libberkeleydb-perl are built with support for 
Berkeley DB version 3. With sarge, however, Exim4 still binds against 
Berkeley DB version 3 (libdb3.so.3), but libberkeleydb-perl is built to 
make use of Berkeley DB version 4 (libdb-4.2.so). Therefore, the 
database format differs and Exim4 cannot access these databases.

Thus, it would be very helpful, if both would use the same version of 
libdb. However, I don't know if changing the Exim4 package is an option, 
here. Nevertheless, I guess that I'm not the only one that builds some 
Exim4 databases with Perl ...

Cheers,
++Markus
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