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-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.53 2005/06/27 14:34:33 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.54 2005/06/29 14:29:05 fanf2 Exp $
New Features in Exim
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@@ -235,6 +235,14 @@ TF/04 There is a new ratelimit ACL condition which can be used to measure
cdb {DB/ratelimits.cdb} \
{$value} {RATELIMIT} }
+ Warning: if you have a busy server with a lot of ratelimit tests,
+ especially with the per_rcpt option, you may suffer from a performance
+ bottleneck caused by locking on the ratelimit hints database. Apart from
+ making your ACLs less complicated, you can reduce the problem by using a
+ RAM disk for Exim's hints directory, /var/spool/exim/db/. However this
+ means that Exim will lose its hints data after a reboot (including retry
+ hints, the callout cache, and ratelimit data).
+
TK/01 Added an 'spf' lookup type that will return an SPF result for a given
email address (the key) and an IP address (the database):