"Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 21 Apr 00, at 8:22, Greg Kopp wrote:
> > 1. What is morerecpthosts and morercpthosts.cdb? Is there a limit to
> > the number of hosts that can be in the rcpthosts file?
>
> No real limit; it's just that both files are parsed each time
> qmail-smtpd is run (ie. connection arrives).
morercpthosts is not parsed at all, of course. qmail-smtpd opens the
morercpthosts.cdb file, and uses it, if necessary, directly from the
disk. I'm guessing that's the point: to keep large rcpthosts lists
from turning qmail-smtpd into a memory hog.
> I've heard that 50 lines in rcpthosts makes a good rule-of-thumb.
That's what the manpage says.
Len.
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