On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Trevor Sky Garside wrote:
> It
> seems like it might be a burdon to the system to parse up the text file each
> time a mail comes in.
Parsing text files is actually pretty quick. The evidence for this is
that Exim runs pretty fast on some quite busy systems. If your system is
busy, the files themselves are likely to stay in the operating system's
file cache, so it won't involve any disc operations.
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