Individual whitelists

Don Newcomer newcomer at DICKINSON.EDU
Wed May 26 14:04:26 IST 2004


I've been running individual whitelists since yesterday afternoon and it's
working great!  Now, there are just domain names or addresses.  In the
original whitelist entries we had the choice of "From", "To", or
"FromorTo".  Does the custom code work only for "From" or is it a
combination of the three?

Don Newcomer
Senior Manager, Systems
Infrastructure Systems Department
Library and Information Services
Dickinson College
P.O. Box 1773
Carlisle, PA  17013
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newcomer at dickinson.edu

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> The code in CustomConfig.pm will work very fast for large numbers of
> different white/black lists.
> It reads the whole of the lists into memory at the start (and every few
> hours after that), and then reads them straight from memory as it goes along.
> If the individual lists get large, you may want to combine it with the
> high-speed ruleset processing code in there too. You can use this if you
> know what every entry in each white/black list is going to be an exact
> email address or a domain name. If that is the case then a fast lookup can
> be done for each message, rather than having to process the whole list one
> entry at a time, which is what you have to do in the general case.
>
> One of these days I will try to write an optimiser for the configuration
> compiler, but it's not easy.

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