Author: Sandro Tosi Date: To: Nigel Metheringham CC: exim-users@exim.org, Phil Pennock Subject: Re: [exim] Max length of a filter line
Hi Nigel,
On 01/21/2011 10:22 AM, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On 21 Jan 2011, at 07:36, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> well, the use-case is more a users-paranoia-reason :) We have some
>> customers that defined a lot (the winner is 2800) of email addresses to
>> filter; we were doing it via procmail rules, but now we're moving to
>> consolidate everything inside exim via user filters.
>
> This sounds as though you really want to be doing a single lookup
> against a table of addresses unless I really misunderstand your
> use case. Even if its a sender/recipient combo blacklist or similar
> you could build your db (SQL, or dbm or cdb) tables to be keyed
> appropriately.
Thanks for the suggestion, and that's probably where we are headed to,
but currently that's simply not possible: this is a migration project,
and we'd like to give the less impact possible. let's see for the
evolution :)
