Jun Inamori <jhq@osb.att.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> With 'UCSPI-TCP MySQL patch', the list of reliable IP address can be
> passed from 'vpopmail' to 'tcpserver' through MySQL table, not:
> /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
> In other words, 'vpopmail' does not need to update:
> /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
> for every successful POP3 authentication.
It's still kind of silly to have to create a MySQL database connection every
time somebody authenticates or tries to POP mail just to do POP-before-SMTP.
As djb has noted, a Unix filesystem is already a very heavily optimized
database -- and that's why you can use it to keep track of this kind of state
at a much lower cost.
Charles
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