follow up: Reading an array from a flat file (solved)

[Helga Mayer]

Quoting Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+amavis at ijs.si>:

> Helga,
>
>> I have some 50 users (out of 10000) for whom I want to bypass
>> spamchecking. Instead of writing the addresses literally in amavisd.conf
>> I would prefer to store them in a file. Could this be done in
>> amavisd.conf or will I have to modify amavisd ?
>>
>> Will the following code work ?
>>
>> my $path_mailaddr = '/etc/postfix/bypass_spam_checks';
>> my @all_mailaddr = ();
>> open(MAILADDR, "<$path_mailaddr")
>>   || die "cannot open bypass_spam_checks\n";
>> @all_mailaddr = <MAILADDR>;
>
> Stll need to strip newlines from each.
>
>> my %bypass_spam_checks = ();
>> map { $bypass_spam_checks{lc($_)}=1 } (@all_mailaddr);
>
> You are making a local copy of %bypass_spam_checks with a my(),
> instead of using the %Amavis::Conf::bypass_spam_checks,
> so it has no effect.
>
>> close(MAILADDR);
>>
>> /etc/postfix/bypass_spam_checks contains:
>>
>> user1 at mydomain.de
>> user2 at mydomain.de
>> ....
>> user50 at mydomain.de
>
> Why not just use a read_hash to do the work:
>
> @bypass_spam_checks_maps = ( read_hash('/etc/postfix/bypass_spam_checks') );

Yes this works. I got on the wrong track when trying to replace
'qw (user1 at mydomain ...)' instead of putting the value into the file as rhs.

Thank you
Helga




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