Restart for change of rules

Max Kipness mkipness at GENIANT.COM
Fri Jun 13 18:03:12 IST 2003


Great, this is what I was looking for. This seems to have a very small
impact when doing: service MailScanner reload, and it processes very
quickly without touching Sendmail.

Thanks...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] 
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:35 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Restart for change of rules
> 
> 
> 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.
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
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