Frequently changing rules

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Mar 12 16:30:34 GMT 2004


At 16:06 12/03/2004, you wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 11:50, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 11:35 12/03/2004, you wrote:
> > >Is there any way to tell MailScanner to reread rules more frequently
> > >than just when the process restarts? This is mainly so I can control
> > >things via rules rather than CustomConfig add ons as I'd rather not do a
> > >mysql request for each thing!
> > >
> > >Any suggestions welcome
> >
> > I would still use CustomConfig add-ons to do it as it will be a lot faster
> > than hunting rulesets each time you need a value. I suspect you are talking
> > about per-user rules where the addresses that are matched by the rulesets
> > probably don't overlap anyway, so you really just want to do a hash table
> > lookup on the email address to get the result for that address.
>
>A quick question, is there any way to tell which config option is
>calling a CustomConfig item? As with any reasonable number of items it
>can get very unweildy.

Look for "&" in MailScanner.conf.
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