On 12/9/2011 7:57 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Wietse Venema:
>> This week I implemented a memcache client for Postfix in the hope
>> that it would be useful to share postscreen(8) or verify(8) caches
>> among multiple MTAs.  
>>
>> The implementation is based on libmemcache.  This was not too much
>> work, given a few examples (libmemcache is under-documented).
>>
>> However, robustness tests (with a single memcache server) proved
>> disappointing.
> 
> Considering that memcache patches are floating around with several
> problems, and the amount of time that I put into this, I have made
> the Postfix memcache client part of the 2.9 release. This version
> will at least reliably report problems with memcache servers.
> 
> The Postfix memcache client will compile only with libmemcache
> 1.4.0. The reason is that some API details were documented by looking
> at libmemcache source code. Such details will likely change when
> (if it ever happens) libmemcache is updated.
> 
>       Wietse

Could a (heavily) modified proxymap/proxywrite daemon serve this multi
host cache sharing duty?  Or would that require more work than writing
something from scratch?

-- 
Stan

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