On 2017-11-08 at 22:15 +0100, Yves Goergen wrote: > How can I tell Exim to talk to the MySQL server with UTF-8 encoding?
If "[exim]" is not already in my.cnf then perhaps: # printf '[exim]\ncharacter_set_client=utf8\n' >> /etc/my.cnf Exim specifies an option group to the MySQL client library. The default value given is "exim", so in `/etc/my.cnf` you can have a section starting `[exim]` and put whatever options you want in there. (MySQL searches a range of places, my last blog-post where I touched this, I noted that Ubuntu required /etc/mysql/my.cnf so ... figure out which ones actually work on your distribution; I'm going to write /etc/my.cnf here) If that's not specific enough and you want other clients, then the Exim configuration option `mysql_servers` or the server-spec at the start of the query has an expanded syntax, as described in "Special MySQL features" in The Exim Specification: host:port(socket)[group] The `[group]` part there is the name of the group parsed from `/etc/my.cnf`. So `mysql_servers = maildb.example.com[exim-utf8]` should work just fine. My MySQL is incredibly rusty, but I think something like: /etc/my.cnf : [exim] host=maildb.example.com ssl ssl-capath=/etc/ssl/certs/ character_set_client=utf8 -Phil -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
