On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Paul Sobey wrote: > > I recently asked this - you'd need to write a generic filter that trapped > on a FROM domain, and acted accordingly, which I've now done. I'd really > like a way of filtering based on from domain, since it would be much > quicker for Xmail to check for a source.com.tab filter then kick off copies > of perl for each message received just to test. I have a friend who routes > mail for a large university, and when I discussed this with him he noted > that at peak periods he's got close on 100 connections delivering smtp > inbound into his relay. In such a circumstance the potential for many > concurrent copies of perl executing might make even a beefy server have a > hard time of it.... or am I just talking garbage here? I guess to large > extent it depends on what you actually do with the filters, but I still > think a source filter facility would be a nice idea.
Write a 10Kb binary C program that read the very first line of the message and eventually invokes Perl. - 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]
