Frequently changing rules

[Simon Dick]

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 16:30, Julian Field wrote:
> 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.

I meant from within the functions as ideally I'd like to use the same
function for different options returning different results depending on
which option it was called for.