Milter-greylist

Ivan F. Martinez <ml@...> wrote:

> MO> That's not really a bekreley DB related problem, you can do that with
> MO> any backend, can't you?
>
> Yes, I'm just thinking about berkeley because as it is used by sendmail,
> any machine where milter-greylist will be installed will have the berkeley
> libs.

I'm not sure milter-greylist should use Berkeley DB.

Sendmail's databases are mostly read-only, and generated from text
files. If you crash, it's not a problem: in the worst scenario you
crashed during DB regeneration, and you just have to rebuild it.

milter-greylist is continously modifying its database. If you crash you
can loose the database. The current code is trying hard to avoid
database corruption on crashes, and moving to Berkeley DB will probably
be a step backward on this front.

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