[Mimedefang] List of From that are not spam?

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Jon Kenoyer wrote:

> but this does not seem very scalable.  I was thinking it would be better
> to have a text file that lists all the "OK" domains that is loaded at
> start so that the list doesn't have to be reloaded for each email
> request.  Downside being you would have to restart the mimedefang
> service with changes.

Or you can use a database (either Berkeley DB or a real SQL database.)

> Does Mimedefang currently do this and I missed it?

MIMEDefang doesn't do it.  CanIt does (http://www.canit.ca/), but CanIt
is not free. :-)

> If not does the above approach sound reasonable?

Sure.  Text files are OK if they don't change often; a database is best
if the data does change often.

--
David.