Re: Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-11-02 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/31/2009 7:39 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Noel Jones put forth on 10/31/2009 1:12 AM: Each lookup table requires overhead. 30 separate tables requires considerably more overhead than one table. The size of the dataset doesn't change, it's the overhead that gets smaller. The more

Re: Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-11-01 Thread mouss
Stan Hoeppner a écrit : mouss put forth on 10/31/2009 11:06 AM: mouss, you rock. you can use a script if you prefer. the advantage of 'make' is that it only re-generates files when needed (source change). The only likely changes would be adding another country. sometimes, you find a

Re: Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-10-31 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/31/2009 12:32 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: All these cidr maps are a great example of separate tables that should be combined into a single table with a Makefile. Interesting. I may take a look into Makefile some time. I was unaware of it until today. Just out of curiosity, how does

Re: Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-10-31 Thread mouss
Stan Hoeppner a écrit : [snip] Thanks for the hints Noel. I may need them down the road, although not at the moment. Though I am curious and may play around with Makefile just to learn something. you can use a script if you prefer. the advantage of 'make' is that it only re-generates

Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-10-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Noel Jones put forth on 10/31/2009 1:12 AM: Each lookup table requires overhead. 30 separate tables requires considerably more overhead than one table. The size of the dataset doesn't change, it's the overhead that gets smaller. The more concurrent smtpd processes running, the more it

Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-10-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
mouss put forth on 10/31/2009 11:06 AM: mouss, you rock. you can use a script if you prefer. the advantage of 'make' is that it only re-generates files when needed (source change). The only likely changes would be adding another country. In this case, would I just add the file name to the

Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-10-30 Thread Robert Lopez
I would like to confirm my understanding about access files. Please let me know if any of this is not correct... The man (5) access description describes a prototype file, where that file could be a single file describing any host names, network addresses, envelope senders or recipient

Re: Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-10-30 Thread Robert Lopez
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Noel Jones njo...@megan.vbhcs.org wrote: On 10/30/2009 12:55 PM, Robert Lopez wrote: I would like to confirm my understanding about access files. Please let me know if any of this is not correct... The man (5) access description describes a prototype file,

Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-10-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Robert Lopez put forth on 10/30/2009 6:57 PM: It is not clear to me what the benefit of multiple files is beyond this association. Organization and ease of management for one. For example: smtpd_client_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/access

Re: Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-10-30 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/30/2009 9:05 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Robert Lopez put forth on 10/30/2009 6:57 PM: It is not clear to me what the benefit of multiple files is beyond this association. Organization and ease of management for one. For example: smtpd_client_restrictions =

Re: Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-10-30 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/30/2009 6:57 PM, Robert Lopez wrote: Postfix places no limit on how many maps you can use, but there is system overhead with each map. Rule of thumb is to combine maps wherever possible -- don't use two check_sender_access statements if you can do it with one. The smart way to do this is

Please evaluate my understanding wrt access files

2009-10-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Noel Jones put forth on 10/30/2009 11:50 PM: On 10/30/2009 9:05 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Robert Lopez put forth on 10/30/2009 6:57 PM: It is not clear to me what the benefit of multiple files is beyond this association. Organization and ease of management for one. For example: