On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 06:13:15PM +0200, Steve wrote:
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:00:36 +0300
> > Von: Henrik K <h...@hege.li>
> > An: postfix-users@postfix.org
> > Betreff: Re: max length of pcre rule?
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:17:22PM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:55:19PM +0200, Steve wrote:
> > > > > You if/endif suggestion for the prefix is interesting.
> > > > > 
> > > > > For added safety, the individual rules should be anchored with ^ and
> > the
> > > > > bracketed atom plussed, no?
> > > > > 
> > > > > /^[^:]+:.+
> > > > > 
> > > > Yes. You are right. But to be honest this should be enough (just an
> > example):
> > > > 001) if
> > /^Received|X\-((Origin(ating)?|Client|MDRemote|Sender)\-?IP|(Client|Remote_)Addr|PHP\-Script):/
> > > > 002) /\b(127\.0.\d+\.\d+)\b/ REJECT aviso.ci junk 2
> > > > 003) endif
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > * Rule 001 will match a specific header.
> > > > * Rule 002 will match 127.0.xxx.xxx
> > > > * 127.0.xxx.xxx could be anchored with ^ but the rule/if-condition in
> > > > 001 is already taking care of that 127.0.xxx.xxx is not part of the
> > > > header name. So you can shorten the regexp to just "/\b(<ip you
> > > > check/rule>)/b REJECT blah-blah-blah"
> > > 
> > > Indeed, on second thought the anchoring is useless in individual rules,
> > > making it much more readable/managable.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for taking to time to de-parse my giga-rule into its component
> > > parts!
> > 
> > In theory that's quite inefficient.
> >
> What is inefficient? The combining of rules or the splitting?

Executing a bunch of expressions instead of one.

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