Re: Pop before SMTP and "makemap" problems

[Alan Brown]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Admin Mailing Lists wrote:

> when i used sendmail i used to have a problem of the sort. every so often
> the hash db wouldn't create. i'd have to remove the previous one, then
> create. I used to make my maps like this with a shell script and it
> worked fine:
> 
> rm /etc/junk.db
> makemap hash /etc/junk.db < /etc/junk

That can cause _major_ problems and cause bounced mail, etc

Better to do it this way:

makemap hash /etc/junk.db.new < /etc/junk
mv /etc/junk.db.new /etc/junk.db

AB