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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Dr Robert Young <rc...@aliconsultants.com> on 2005/07/14 22:03:40 UTC

Another whitelist question

One more whitelist question....

if the whitelist database file is "deleted", then spamassassin will 
create a new one ( by itself) and start collecting information from the 
beginning,  correct?


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Dr. Robert Young
ALI Database Consultants
USA

Re: Another whitelist question

Posted by Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>.

At 04:03 PM 7/14/2005, Dr Robert Young wrote:
>One more whitelist question....
>
>if the whitelist database file is "deleted", then spamassassin will create 
>a new one ( by itself) and start collecting information from the 
>beginning,  correct?

AFIAK yes, although to avoid race conditions you might want to stop access 
to SA, then delete it. Otherwise SA might re-write some of  the same 
entries back to the DB you just deleted.