Mark Goodge:
> Noel Jones wrote:
> > On 12/15/2009 7:30 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
> >> On 12/14/2009, Simon Waters (sim...@zynet.net) wrote:
> >>> On Monday 14 December 2009 14:24:34 Jaroslaw Grzabel wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> What postfix does ? Reject all messages until
> >>>> I will not be notified and remove the database and let postfix to
> >>>> recreate it again.
> >>
> >>> It refreshes cache at 3 hours by default,
> >>
> >> Is there a way to configure it so that it only falls back to the cache
> >> if it doesn't get a responds from the downstream server?
> >
> > No, that would defeat the purpose of the cache.
>
> Not entirely. It would defeat one purpose of the cache, but not the
> other one.
>
> The cache has two main functions:
>
> 1. To reduce traffic between the gateway and destination server, and
> reduce load on both.
>
> 2. To allow the gateway server to correctly handle mail
> acceptance/rejection when the destination server is unreachable.
If the cache is good enough for 2) then it makes no sense to
skip the cache for 1).
Wietse
