[Mimedefang] allow local aliases w/ md_check_against_smtp_server

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Sep 21 09:17:54 EDT 2004


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Ron Peterson wrote:

> Yeah, I thought about that, but it just seems silly to be reading
> /etc/aliases over and over every time a new message comes in (this is a
> pretty busy server, too).

So do it once per slave, in filter_initialize.  (Unless your aliases
file changes often.)

Or better yet, use the Berkeley DB lookup functions to access the alias
DB directly.

--
David.



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