exim and gdbm

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:48:28PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Bad news:
> The new gdbm library can't open old gdbm files because
> an internal structure has changed size.
> 
> Good news (at least for exim users):
> Exim keeps no essential info in its db files.
> All files in /var/spool/exim/db should be deleted when
> installing the new gdbm.

Wouldn't it make sense to add that to the postinstall script?  This
might get rid of a couple of "Exim 1.5.0 not work"  questions on the ML.

Corinna

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