Re: [tpop3d-discuss] new features I would like to implement

[Paul Makepeace]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:57:11PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> 1) dbm authentication driver. I can write the basic support for db3 so that 
> it may access a dbm file for authentication. 

If you use the perl interpreter you'll have access to DB_File.pm and
BerkeleyDB.pm. The latter implements a large chunk of the Berkeley DB
{2-4} API as I understand it which would allow pretty fine grained
control, not that you probably need it but still :-).

Perhaps Python has something similar...

> people will use db3 (or should I assume db2)? I haven't used gdbm much, but I 
> assume if I stick with the simple parts of the API I will be OK.

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