Re: [exim] callout db quite large?

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Author: B. Cook
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Subject: Re: [exim] callout db quite large?
Heiko Schlichting wrote:
>>sender callouts and recipient callouts are configured and working as they
>>should. [...] My question is.. should the callout db be so big?
>>
>> 78M    /var/spool/exim/db/callout

>
>
> You can check the contents of this file:
>
> exim_dumpdb `exim -bP spool_directory | awk '{print $NF}'` callout
>
> This should give you enough information if there is wrong content, expiry
> does not work or everything is fine.
>
> On my server the callout db is much smaller:
>
> $ ls -lh callout
> -rw-r----- 1 exim exim 9.5M Dec 19 17:00 callout
>
> and contains nearly 90000 entries which seems correct using recipient
> callout for our campus only.
>
> Heiko
>
> Heiko Schlichting        | Freie Universität Berlin
> heiko@???       | Zentraleinrichtung für Datenverarbeitung (ZEDAT)
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exim_dumpdb `exim -bP spool_directory | awk '{print $NF}'` callout| wc -l
7300

all of them are from 19-Dec-2005

19-Dec-2005 09:53:47 ix.netcom.com callout=accept postmaster=unknown random=reject (19-Dec-2005
09:53:47)
19-Dec-2005 09:53:47 jaker@??? callout=accept
19-Dec-2005 09:53:48 greenwood.com callout=accept postmaster=unknown random=accept (19-Dec-2005
09:53:48)
19-Dec-2005 09:53:48 ilmissc@??? callout=reject
19-Dec-2005 09:53:48 ldtal@??? callout=reject
this is the top of the list..

and here is the bottom of the list..
19-Dec-2005 11:12:15 ugtccois@??? callout=reject
19-Dec-2005 11:12:15 vh.net callout=accept postmaster=unknown random=unknown
19-Dec-2005 11:12:16 501c.com callout=accept postmaster=unknown random=accept (19-Dec-2005 11:12:16)
19-Dec-2005 11:12:16 wayn.com callout=accept postmaster=unknown random=accept (19-Dec-2005 11:12:16)
19-Dec-2005 11:12:17 futbolamericano.com callout=accept postmaster=unknown random=reject
(19-Dec-2005 10:40:08)
19-Dec-2005 11:12:17 qshm@??? callout=reject


what does this mean?