On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 08:43:40 -0400 Dianne Skoll wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:38:49 +0100 > RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > The way I suggested has advantages: > > > - there's no need to clean-out expired rules manually > > A minor advantage at best. And nothing stops you from keeping your > expiring rules in a separate .cf file so they can be auto-purged.
With a non standard hack of a script? > > - it's clear which rules are permanent, temporary and expired > > No advantage at all; it's clear with the tflags expiry=xxxx method. YMMV, but it would take me several seconds to find the entry and work it out, I wouldn't just know. > > - grep can easily separate the three classes > > No advantage for your method. It depends what you are searching for, if I grep for FOO and it finds meta BAR FOO && SPF_FAIL I'd have to do a second search search to find the tflags for BAR, or I'd have to clutter the first search with context. > The benefits of a standard, supported, maintained way to do expiry far > outweigh everything else. That doesn't imply that it has to be done with tflags.
