Scalability of 'spam.whitelist.rules' facility

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Mon May 21 10:40:17 IST 2007


Hmmm, okay.  So how about a hash ?

On Mon, 21 May 2007 19:35:09 +1000 (EST), Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
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>> Why not migrate them to MySQL and use the SQLBlackWhiteList.pm that is
>> available from the MailWatch package ?
> 
> This might be fine on low loaded systems, but to do a lookup for every
> email on major networks would fail, as sql would not keep up unless you
> clustered and nobody is going to do that just for whitelisting.
> 
> I've seen it with vpopmail for instance the cdb file can handle over 6000
> concurrent connections with no ill affect, sql spits farts and dies at
> 1/5th of that value unless you cluster, so it's a pointless expense.
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> Res
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