Enhancement Request ?

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Hi Glenn,

Really was just seeing how we could speed up MS, though it is darn quick
already :) especially on the side where it is having to query files for
config details.

Cheers,

On Fri, 25 May 2007 16:36:52 +0200, "Glenn Steen" <glenn.steen at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 25/05/07, --[ UxBoD ]-- <uxbod at splatnix.net> wrote:
>> Im stupid! It was mentioned that this was read into memory at daemon
>> startup.  But perhaps on large rulesets it would speed up this process ?
> 
> It probably would... Should the hashes be able to be REs too?
> 
> But then... I'd consider a ruleset that needs to be more than 1000
> lines to be somehow broken.
> IIRC the OP was using domains/email addresses to whitelist in MS,
> which is plainly not that smart. That OP said something about the risk
> of spoofing being negligible. Sigh.
> Well, I used to do that too. Not as big a set as 4000 entries, just a
> few hundred domains... Guess what: That was enough for all sort of
> badness to slip through as W/L.... solidly undermining the
> reputation/trust for the MailScanner system. Today I use a very
> limited spamassassin whitelist instead (less than 10 domains...
> actually less than 5:-), and that is it (apart from 127.0.0.1, of
> course:).
> Oh well, everyone to their own...:-).
> 
>> On Fri, 25 May 2007 15:05:37 +0100, "--[ UxBoD ]--" <uxbod at splatnix.net>
>> wrote:
>> > I was thinking about a question which was asked the other day about
>> maximum
>> > size for a rules file. How about implementing something similar to the
>> > Postfix configuration where you could specify :-
>> >
>> > Maximum Message Size = hash:%rules-dir%/max.message.size.rules
>> >
>> > and store the rules within a hashed database.  What do you think ?
>> >
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