limit to the amount of white/blacklist rules.

[Eduardo Casarero]

2008/8/21 Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>

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>
> Eduardo Casarero wrote:
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>> Hi, does anyone know if there is a theorically limit to the amount of
>> white/blacklist rules that MailScanner can handle? I've searched the
>> archives and there is only 1 email without answer saying that he had 40k of
>> rules and some random problems.
>>
>> I pretend to use them through a CustomFunction (&SQLWhitelist y
>> &SQLBlacklist).
>>
> If you implement it as a straight text ruleset, I wouldn't advise more than
> a thousand or so rules, as it has to check them in order and it will just
> gradually get slower as you add more rules. There is no theoretical limit,
> however.
>
> However, if you use a Custom Function to produce the answer, then you can
> of course make your logic as complicated as you like, it's your code.


Thanks! I'll make some tests.

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> Jules
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