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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Compiling filters?
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.132513.17373@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 13:25:13 GMT
Organization: Widener CS Dept
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 An idea struck me as I added filter-rules entry #22...

 What about creating a "compiled" version of the filter? It could be
something of the format

	headerfield<fs>expect string<fs>filename

which should be considerably faster for filter to read than the full
test of "if (to contains "howdy") then save /home/greetings". If you
have 30+ filters, and the mail coming in happens to hit the last one,
it eats up more system resources than if it could skip rapidly thru
the file.

 Whatcha think?

Brendan

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