> > These are plain ascii files... NOT database hashes. And, there is no need > > to restart sendmail whenever you add anything to these files. Changes take > > effect immediately.
> Are you sure? I believe Sendmail only reads F directives once, at > startup. Just figured out the confusion... and we were BOTH correct, David. Yes, the F directives are read at startup... and... no restart is needed. One only needs to send a "kill -1" to the PID of the parent sendmail process. This forces a re-read of the flat-files, without the need to restart sendmail. Ken -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David F. Skoll Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:52 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] Block subject On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Cormack, Ken wrote: > F{FullSubjects} -o /etc/mail/subjects_full > F{PartSubjects} -o /etc/mail/subjects_part <snip> > These are plain ascii files... NOT database hashes. And, there is no need > to restart sendmail whenever you add anything to these files. Changes take > effect immediately. Are you sure? I believe Sendmail only reads F directives once, at startup. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
