E.B.:
> Another question about policy service run under postfix spawn---
>
> If using a database to store policy service state, on a busy site
> I understand this could mean possibly very large number of
> policy servers along with each smtpd service.
>
> if each policy service has a DB connection this could be too
> much. Is it advisable to connect to postfix proxymap service
> to solve this problem?
Postfix currently has no support for *sql* database updates.
> If so is there any sample perl code floating
> around for a policy server to connect to proxyread/proxywrite
> default services? Is it better to start a separate proxymap service
> for the policy server? Are there any restrictions that would make
> this impossible or too difficult? Is there a better solution?
The proxymap/proxywrite service currently does not supported queries
from non-Postfix clients. Instead, you could use memcached to
maintain state.
Wietse
> Again, sample code much apprecaited :)
>
> (or link to open source policy server that uses this technicque)
>
> Thnanks!
>
