Fwd: RE: Dealing with MailScanner overloads

[Gerry Doris]

> Quoting Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>:
>
>> What do you all think of this suggestion? Any ideas for improvements or
>> useful ways to implement it?
>>
>> 'm thinking along the lines of adding entries to the sendmail access db.
>> I
>> can't remember if I need to restart sendmail after changing the access
>> db,
>> but a way of avoiding having to do that would be good.
>>
>> I would probably implement it as a Custom Function, as it's a side issue
>> from the main point of scanning messages.
>
> Yes, you would need to restart sendmail after changing the access table,
> but
> we use a Postgresql Backend for all of our sendmail tables so we have
> gotten
> past that issue.
>
> Regards,
>
> Errol Neal

There is NO need to restart sendmail.  Only the access db needs to be
rebuilt with a makemap commend.  Hopefully you didn't use the postgres
backend just to avoid this "issue".

Gerry