Individual whitelists

[Julian Field]

It just matches the From.

At 14:04 26/05/2004, you wrote:
>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
>717-245-1256 (Voice)
>717-245-1690 (FAX)
>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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