Best guess is that the ACL entries (blobbed as they may be) are indeed held in memory. I have abt 1600 entries.. class a, b, & c and have yet had any (at all) complaints of missed mail attributed to these settings. Most non-receipt mail not received was because of bad email names.. fwiw
~Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Smart Business Lists Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:16 PM - MGMT To: Guy Isabel Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SPAM Tuesday, August 27, 2002 you wrote: >> Every ACL file is checked for every msg!! :)) It helps that the >> files all hashed index files, rather than linear text files. GI> I was going to suggest this to Terry -- as if he didn't know GI> already ;)) Well, I'm not certain what IMAIL does but I believe the acl is in memory for IMAIL because you have to toggle the SMTP service when you change the acl file. Also, IMAIL handles IP's that are temporarily blocked because of the "hack attempt" setting. My guess is that these are stored in the same memory resident table and then when the server is toggled the "temporary" ones are overwritten by the acl file which is re-read into memory. In my case I only read the acl file when my log file monitor starts. It is then held in memory as a Perl associative array. I assume IMAIL probably does something similar but I really don't know. Terry ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
