Re: Routers injecting item into director chain?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: rich
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Routers injecting item into director chain?
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Dr. Rich Artym wrote:

> Talking about virtual domain handling, is there no alternative to
> dropping on the floor the value returned by a lookup in a "domains"
> director guard? If this were returned in a string variable available
> within the matching director instance then we could avoid any further
> expensive disk accesses by using $extract on the looked up value.
> That would allow very generic table-driven directors to be created
> without sacrificing efficiency.


Nice idea. Noted. (But Exim does cache the last lookup, so even now you
may get away without another disc operation.)

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Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
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