Petr Novotny wrote:
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> On 29 Dec 99, at 10:50, Peter Gradwell wrote:
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> > At 23:43 28/12/99 +0100, bert hubert wrote:
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> > > Rule of thumb for large sites: Put your 50 most com-
> > > monly used domains into rcpthosts, and the rest into
> > > morercpthosts.
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> > ah, but does it matter? I have nearly 900 in my rcpthosts file and I'm not
> > noticing anything in particular. I'm doing a constant stream of mail, but
> > never more than one stream at anyone time really... performance is fine.
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> You don't HUP or restart qmail-send too often then.
That has no effect.
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> > So, should I be worried? Does it matter? When does it matter?
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> The file is scanned during startup of qmail-send, and after HUPing
> qmail-send. If you don't do that often, you don't need to worry.
rcpthosts is scanned every time an email comes in (by qmail-smtpd).
> But then again, if you need to administer a file with like 900
> significant lines, you'd like to use some automatic tool for that. It's
> easy to adapt that tool to work with morercpthosts and cdb format.
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> Please correct me if I'm wrong - you may also leave rcpthosts
> empty and stuff everything in morercpthosts if it matters.
Probably.
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Andre
