On Sunday, March 25 at 09:48 PM, quoth John Levine:
It might be useful if you have a pool of servers sharing a single
database of pop-before-smtp,
Hmm, fair enough. Still seems like overkill, though.
but I would think for that application NFS would be adequate.
Agreed.
I have a greylist application with a little perl server that answers
UDP requests from qmail-smtpd. The greylist database is in a perl
table, dumped out to a file every 10 minutes in case of crashes. In
retrospect I could have done the whole greylist thing in the
filesystem, but I think the UDP request code is smaller and simpler
than putting the greylister into qmail-smptd, and the perl program
runs as an unprivileged user.
Eh? I don't follow; why would using the FS to communicate that info
require moving the code into qmail-smtpd?
~Kyle
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