Author: Henry Amrhein Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] spammers IP ban
On 2/27/06, David Saez Padros <david@???> wrote:
> we are doing a similar thing, but instead of having a log parser we
> directly insert the ip into a mysql database using exim builtin mysql
> support, then every 5 minutes the mysql databse is dumped into a faster
> cdb databse which is used by exim.
I'm curious. Doesn't a few writes to the relational database take
much longer
than the time gained by reading from the cdb file? I'm not saying this
is a bad technique. I'm just curious if I'm thinking correctly.
