Thought about this some more this morning, and it seemed a good idea to write something to the internet at large about the state of play with this thing.
If I'm going to ever do more than just supply binary packages for the same patch re-applied to the latest version of sendmail (which if you're using this system, you should be able to do yourself anyway), then here will be my starting point:
- SQL maps able to exist in the source/object code of the Sendmail system without being active, just like the LDAP code.
- More documentation (maybe some of you folks can assist with this?).
- Migration scripts to convert DBM (etc) style maps into SQL tables. (some folks can assist with this too? I don't care if they're Python/Perl/whatever really, although I have a vague prejudice against PHP for shell scripting)
- Postgres and MySQL to be dealt with in exactly the same way in sendmail.cf, similar to how LDAP is used.
- sendmail.mc m4 macros for the basic configuration.
Any additional suggestions would be appreciated. Fire away.
Either way, I am sure you can appreciate that this will be quite some undertaking, and will take a lot of time when I eventually decide to get started on it, so it's not going to be happening any time particularly soon (not without assistance from the internet at large, that is), but it will be the next step.
K.
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Thought about this some more this morning, and it seemed a good idea to write something to the internet at large about the state of play with this thing.
If I'm going to ever do more than just supply binary packages for the same patch re-applied to the latest version of sendmail (which if you're using this system, you should be able to do yourself anyway), then here will be my starting point:
- ./Build script fully supporting -DPGSQLMAP -DMYSQLMAP
- SQL maps able to exist in the source/object code of the Sendmail system without being active, just like the LDAP code.
- More documentation (maybe some of you folks can assist with this?).
- Migration scripts to convert DBM (etc) style maps into SQL tables. (some folks can assist with this too? I don't care if they're Python/Perl/whatever really, although I have a vague prejudice against PHP for shell scripting)
- Postgres and MySQL to be dealt with in exactly the same way in sendmail.cf, similar to how LDAP is used.
- sendmail.mc m4 macros for the basic configuration.
Any additional suggestions would be appreciated. Fire away.
Either way, I am sure you can appreciate that this will be quite some undertaking, and will take a lot of time when I eventually decide to get started on it, so it's not going to be happening any time particularly soon (not without assistance from the internet at large, that is), but it will be the next step.
K.