MS ruleset file sizes

[Julian Field]

At 18:12 21/03/2003, you wrote:
>I am pretty sure that there are no built-in limitations on the size of
>MailScanner rulesets, but what are the practical limits on their size?
>
>We are considering giving our customers the ability to customize a subset of
>their MS settings.  How will MS performance be effected if there are
>potentially
>tens of thousands of entries in several rulesets?

What I would do in that case is use a database to store all the user
settings. Slurp the tables into hash arrays at startup time, then at
run-time just look up their settings in the fast hash arrays. You can do
all this with Custom Functions.
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