Re: Handling spools

Umm.. what does it do? What is this 'attribute 24 type string'? Is it just extracting e-mail addresses from this "IDENT" string?

Also, looking at the filename, I'm wondering if this is all going into an /etc/mail/aliases type of file, to be hashed into a DB file. If this is the case, and you routinely deal with an excess of 50k users, have you considered hacking up your mail daemon to plug into a real database?

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Re: Re: Handling spools by tekniko (Deacon) on Jan 15, 2001 at 20:02 UTC
Actually, we already do that in a 10-node server cluster. This is a utility file that is part of a larger system that one of the former admins wrote. Much of what he wrote was somewhat obfuscated and poorly documented.	[reply]