[imp] Re: Re: Ingo blacklist deletes ALL messages

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jacob Davida <jacob-news at davida.com>:

> Michael,
>
> I haven't checked on this in a while. Has this feature been implemented?
>
> Also on a side note, the string was extracted straight from the MySQL
> database with phpMyAdmin, but maybe the string is the format of the
> serialized
> data and should not be messed with? :)
>
> Anyways, just checking to see if/how that went.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Jacob Davida
>
> "Michael M Slusarz" <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu> wrote in message
> news:20040211115459.xsgk8gk8g8sc8g88 at bigworm.colorado.edu...
>> Quoting Jacob Davida <jacob-news at davida.com>:
>>
>> > I'd love to make one, but alas time is short ;) I have a feeling it'd be
>> > able to use
>> > one of the current values, since it seems the blacklist does in fact
> store
>> > the
>> > number of lines/addresses in the blacklist
>> >
>> > Example:
>> >
>> > a:2:{s:1:"a";a:297:{i:0;s:20:"dgle3cr4v5z9 at 163.net";i:1;s
>>
>> This is actually the string representation for serialized data so this
> doesn't
>> help us much.  We immediately unserialize this information when we extract
> it
>> from the backend, so we don't normally have access to this string at all.
> Even
>> if we did have this string, we couldn't use it since the ingo storage
> backend
>> system allows for multiple backends and this would only work for the
> 'prefs'
>> backend (granted, it is the only backend available right now, but
> something
>> like a 'sql' backend may be available in the future that would require a
>> different way to get the # of addressses stored in the blacklist).
>>
>> The better way to do this is to have a check in common code when we are
> adding
>> blacklist addresses to the backend store - a simple count() should do the
> job
>> there.  So maybe I will go ahead and code this now that I have talked it
> out
>> this far...

See the 'maxblacklist' and 'maxwhitelist' configuration options.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder