Rules from database & rules.rules

[Simon Dick]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 19:54, Robin, Rob wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>         Some unanswered questions. Thanks all.
>
> 1)      Currently, all the rules are put into flat files.
>         e.g.
>                 From:*@domain.com               bounce
>
>         Does MailScanner support any ways to put these rules into some kind of database (berkeley db, ldap, mysql) ??

Not out of the box but it does support custom perl subroutines which you
can use to implement them yourself.

>         When using flat files, does the Mail Scanner read all the contents of the rules and put it in memory at the start-up time (and put it on to a search tree?? ) ?? OR for every message it scans, it will read only the needed files ??

It reads them all at startup and only re-reads them when the processes
reload.