X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/2983e1a616058c03b57f1ab32a691f8b8ff9764e..77afbf0a11c2a6e532ac860243e48414c294541b:/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt index 599d2bb1b..68366a4a9 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt +++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt @@ -466,52 +466,6 @@ Rationale: Note that non-RFC-documented field names and data types are used. -LMDB Lookup support -------------------- -LMDB is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact, crash-proof key-value embedded data store. -It is modeled loosely on the BerkeleyDB API. You should read about the feature -set as well as operation modes at https://symas.com/products/lightning-memory-mapped-database/ - -LMDB single key lookup support is provided by linking to the LMDB C library. -The current implementation does not support writing to the LMDB database. - -Visit https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb to download the library or find it in your -operating systems package repository. - -If building from source, this description assumes that headers will be in -/usr/local/include, and that the libraries are in /usr/local/lib. - -1. In order to build exim with LMDB lookup support add or uncomment - -EXPERIMENTAL_LMDB=yes - -to your Local/Makefile. (Re-)build/install exim. exim -d should show -Experimental_LMDB in the line "Support for:". - -EXPERIMENTAL_LMDB=yes -LDFLAGS += -llmdb -# CFLAGS += -I/usr/local/include -# LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib - -The first line sets the feature to include the correct code, and -the second line says to link the LMDB libraries into the -exim binary. The commented out lines should be uncommented if you -built LMDB from source and installed in the default location. -Adjust the paths if you installed them elsewhere, but you do not -need to uncomment them if an rpm (or you) installed them in the -package controlled locations (/usr/include and /usr/lib). - -2. Create your LMDB files, you can use the mdb_load utility which is -part of the LMDB distribution our your favourite language bindings. - -3. Add the single key lookups to your exim.conf file, example lookups -are below. - -${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}{$value}} -${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}{$value}fail} -${lookup{$sender_address_domain}lmdb{/var/lib/baruwa/data/db/relaydomains.mdb}} - - Queuefile transport ------------------- Queuefile is a pseudo transport which does not perform final delivery. @@ -685,7 +639,7 @@ used via the transport in question. Dovecot authenticator via inet socket ------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------- If Dovecot is configured similar to :- service auth { @@ -712,30 +666,6 @@ and a whitespace-separated port number must be given. -Twophase queue run fast ramp ----------------------------- -To include this feature, add to Local/Makefile: - EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUE_RAMP=yes - -If the (added for this feature) main-section option "queue_fast_ramp" (boolean) -is set, and a two-phase ("-qq") queue run finds, during the first phase, a -suitably large number of message routed for a given host - then (subject to -the usual queue-runner resource limits) delivery for that host is initiated -immediately, overlapping with the remainder of the first phase. - -This is incompatible with queue_run_in_order. - -The result should be a faster startup of deliveries when a large queue is -present and reasonable numbers of messages are routed to common hosts; this -could be a smarthost case, or delivery onto the Internet where a large proportion -of recipients hapen to be on a Gorilla-sized provider. - -As usual, the presence of a configuration option is associated with a -predefined macro, making it possible to write portable configurations. -For this one, the macro is _OPT_MAIN_QUEUE_FAST_RAMP. - - - -------------------------------------------------------------- End of file --------------------------------------------------------------