[Mimedefang] tagging mail sent to aliases

Gary Funck gary at intrepid.com
Fri Jan 7 19:12:34 EST 2005


> From: James Ebright
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 7:55 AM
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] tagging mail sent to aliases
> 
> 
> I would think checking the /etc/aliases yourself would be less memory 
> intensive than another sendmail child. You can probably do this 
> very early on 
> as well if need be like in filter_recipient (remember to pass the 
> multiplexer 
> the -t flag to enable this filter in mimedefang-filter)
[...]

Thanks Jim. Perl question, what's the pros/cons between
this sort of dbopen:

  if(dbmopen(%ALIAS, "/etc/aliases.db", undef)) {

and one that uses the "tie" interface?

  use DB_File;
  tie(%ALIAS, "DB_File", "/etc/aliases.db");





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