On Thu, 29 May 2003, Vitor Renato Alves de Brito wrote: > Assuming that I have a contentfilter script that filters all messages to > my site to block some SPAM and that filter has 2000 lines (phrases, words, > urls, etc) in its defition file. I would like to know how many memory > XMail will spend to use this filter together another filter by user? > > Example: The user will have a own definition file with yours own phrases, > words, urls, e-mail address, etc, that will be executed after my default > contentfilter. > > The message will pass through 2 filters: the default site filter and the > users defined filter. > > I have two options to do it: > 1 - the contentfilter script will be the same but the default definition > file will be appended with the users definition file. In this case, I > will have just a line in filters.in.tab that calls contentfilter script > that read default definition file and then append it with user definition > file. > 2 - the contentfilter script will be executed 2 times, one to filter the > message using the default definition file and other to filter the message > using the user definition file. In this case, I will have a line in > filters.in.tab that calls default contentfilter to my site and one to > each users that will use contentfilter to call contentfilter script using > the user definition file. > > Assuming that I have a default definition file with 2000 lines, a site > with 1000 e-mail accounts, a traffic about 3000-5000 e-mails a day and > the user will be able to create a definition with N lines. > > You can see some problem to do it? > Which case will spend more memory? > > I think the first case is a good idea.
Definitely 1). You might also want to have some sort of client server for filters in place to avoid to load the script interpreter each time. This expecially if you have high load. That you actually do not have (5000 msg/day). - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
