Restart for change of rules

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jun 13 17:35:15 IST 2003


At 17:23 13/06/2003, you wrote:
>mikea <mailto:mikea at MIKEA.ATH.CX> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:07:51AM -0500, Max Kipness wrote:
> > > I believe the answer is yes, but I just wanted to check.
> > >
> > > Is it necessary to restart the MailScanner (which restarts
> > > Sendmail) for every config change, addition to rules, etc?
> >
> > And in particular is it necessary to restart MS to pick up changes to
> > the whitelist?
>
>Whitelist no because it checks it each time it processes a mail. But for
>configuration changes yes.
>
>Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

With pleasure :-)

MailScanner doesn't re-read any configuration files for every mail message.
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