[Gllug] Sendmail, Firewalls, SSL...

Jason Clifford jason at ukpost.com
Fri Jun 28 14:01:10 UTC 2002


On 28 Jun 2002, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

> Ok, you can define your procmail domains in a flat file like so:-
> 
> F{Procmail_domains}/etc/mail/procmail_domains
> 
> which is probably better than a hash map, thinking about it, as you're
> not storing key/value pairs.

No, using the method you suggest you'd have to restart or HUP sendmail 
every time you add a user. Using a hash map you just take care to properly 
lock the table when you open it for updates.

Using a hash map you just make sure you write your ruleset to test for the 
appropriate return value with the address as the key.

Jason Clifford
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