On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Alan Thew wrote:
> > How did you build it? Did you use
> > dbmbuild? That was created for making local alias files, and is
> > documented as lowercasing the keys. Perhaps that was a mistake.
>
> Yes, as I've now found out using lsearch on a very small file.
Sorry, I meant perhaps that was MY mistake (when I wrote dbmbuild).
> > I think that if you use an @@ style of blocking file, so that your
> > entry would read
> >
> > goplay.com: Best-Biz
> >
> > then it would work, since the key is a domain and those are
> > case-insensitive.
>
> Would this be much of an extra overhead?
No. For every incoming message, it is still one DBM lookup; if it's from
a domain with blockings, then the additional work is in testing the
local parts, but one presumes (hopes!) those messages are rare.
Philip
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