3 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop[maildropl] Re: Regular expressions.
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Ramy M. HassanJun 28, 2002 3:45 pm 
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Subject:[maildropl] Re: Regular expressions.Actions...
From:Sam Varshavchik (mrs@courier-mta.com)
Date:Jun 28, 2002 4:09:40 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

Ramy M. Hassan writes:

Hi, I have a very compilcated pattern that I want to mach site wide. This makes the maildrop too slow. I suggest to add a tool to maildrop package that compiles a regular expression and store it in a binary file. Then make

Usually, most of the time is not spent in compiling a regular expression, but in executing it.

first I thought that maildrop do regcomp/regexec, but I found that maildrop has its own regular expression implementation. I just wonder why ? isn't

Because recomp/regexec is not available everywhere.

-- Sam