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Re: [milter-greylist] Storing Hashes instead of full tuples

2005-01-15 by manu@netbsd.org

billstewart2002a <bill.stewart@...> wrote:

> There was a discussion a while back about storing hashes of a tuple
> instead of the tuple itself.  It makes the live database much smaller,
> as much as a factor of 10, and also protects against attacks like
> overly-long source or destination addresses. 

But you loose regex matching. 
What problem will you solve by using hashes anyway? Do you have problems
with the greylist database being too big for your system?

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