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
