Gordon Messmer wrote on Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:03 PM [GMT+4=MSD]: > You should understand that the time it takes to match a pattern with > '.*' will have something like an exponential growth rate relative to > the number of '.*' in your pattern. > > If you're searching the body of a message, the impact will obviously > be much greater.
I've looked more closely and found out that insane man crammed into his .mailfilter 70 (!) rules with body searching (some of them with ".*"). No wonder that filtering takes more than 5 minutes! Thanks for the clues. -- Alexei. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
