On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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).
Ah but I had failed to read the manual carefully :-)
>
> > > 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.
>
This looks fine. I assume the local part is a * if I want to block the
domain?
Thanks
Alan Thew
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