On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Marian Neubert wrote: > if i define a hostlist for "smtp_reserve_hosts", how often is this file > read by the smtp-listening-daemon? Only once after start or every time a > connection arrives?
The listening daemon reads the Exim configuration once, at startup. However, if an option refers to another file, then *that* file is read every time it is needed. So you could say smtp_reserve_hosts = /some/file if you want it to read the file each time it processes the option. If the number of entries in the file is large, you could use a DBM or cdb file for efficiency. Some people use databases... -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
