WARNING: exim 4.99 Fedora current build disfunctional

Cyborg via Exim-users <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:02:51 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exim.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

i just discovered that the current Fedora Exim 4.99 build has a critical 
issue:

... while checking a list: unknown lookup type "mysql"

because the binary seeks for a never had existed  library:

/usr/lib64/exim/4.99-1.fc42/lookups/mysql_lookup.so

correct would be /usr/lib64/exim/4.99-1.fc42/lookups/mysql.so

If someone runs Fedora 42+ and already has that rpm installed, here is a 
quick WORKAROUND*:

cd /usr/lib64/exim/4.99-1.fc42/lookups
ln -s mysql.so mysql_lookup.so
systemctl restart exim

AFAIK, exim seems to work afterwards. Our Testservers processed the 
messages normally afterwards.

*) for Fedora 43 you need a path with the fc43 in it.. same solution.

The Fedora maintainers have been advised to push a fixed rpm out, but 
that may take a day.

best regards from me, recovering from a small hearthattack after 
discovering this potential productionserver ma(i)lfunction ;)
Cyborg


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