Re: unsupported dictionary type: hash ???

[Bennett T. <be...@ra...>]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:26:37AM +1000, Mike Rowe wrote:
> bash-2.03# postconf -m
> static
> nis
> dbm
> regexp
> environ
> unix

Of that list, you need dbm, that'd NDBM_File as the Perl module.

I just hacked on a copy of pop-before-smtp 1.30pre2 (that's what I had
convenient to hand, shouldn't be too different from 1.30); the attached patch
contains the chunk of -conf.pl I produced; when I commented out the =pod at
the top, the result passed "perl -wcT", so the syntax is Ok anyway. I don't
know how well it will work. I suspect (although I may be wrong) that it may be
necessary to find some way to flush the data, even if it requires closing and
reopening (untying and retying) the dbm hash in the sync function. I haven't
worked with dbm in a long time, perhaps someone else can assist here?

-Bennett