Ronald F. Guilmette: > > In message <3jdjvm2k00zj...@spike.porcupine.org>, > wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: > > >Ronald F. Guilmette: > >> Somewhere burried in the documentation I vaguely remember seeing a > >> comment to the effect that Postfix will only ask a policy server to > >> handle 100 requests. (I guess that this is one way of allowing for > >> badly written policy servers that have, for example, memork leaks > >> or other kinds of problems that would otherwise build up over time.) > > > >That is incorrect. The text says: > > > > On active systems a policy daemon process is used multiple > > times, for up to $max_use incoming SMTP connections. > > > >That is, UP TO $MAX_USE INCOMING SMTP CONNECTIONS, not > >up to 100 policy server requests. > > > >Please do read carefully before posting hypotheses and > >non-applicable scenarios. > > OK, I'm reading (and re-reading, and re-re-reading) the statement in > question, which appears in the SMTPD_POLICY_README, and I'm sorry to > say that I still find it almost imponderably ambiguous. > > Please clarify your use of the word "use" in this context. What does > it mean for a policy daemon to be "used"? If something sends a
Sorry, I am not going to explain how client-server architecture works. This is assumed knowledge for the Postfix documentation audience. Client-server was a hot topic 30+ years ago. Wietse