Changes to spam.blacklist.rules and spam.whitelist.rules

[Julian Field]

On 30/09/2009 21:19, Christopher Fisk wrote:
>>   Christopher Fisk wrote:
>>   >  Quick question on these.  If I change these files do I
>>   need to
>>   >  restart MailScanner?
>>      
>    
>>   You can do a "MailScanner reload" which rereads the
>>   config w/o stopping the critter...
>>      
>
> Can I do a
>
> killall -HUP MailScanner
>
> Safely to force a reload?
Yes.
>    I don't have an init script setup currently for these systems, and I'm trying to write a script to create the spam.blacklist.rules and spam.whitelist.rules list from a MySQL database.
>
>
> I just tested it and it reloaded fine, but I want to make sure I'm not breaking anything.  It would only when I add or remove a whitelist or blacklist entry, a few times a week.
>    
That will work fine. It's what a "service MailScanner reload" actually 
does anyway (more or less) :-)
>
>
> Christopher Fisk
>
>    

Jules

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