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Re: Address Verficiation parameters

From: Ramprasad (ramnetcore.co.in)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2006 - 02:40:46 CDT


On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 11:27 -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
> At 08:53 AM 8/28/2006, Ramprasad wrote:
> >I have enabled Cached Remote Address verification on my
> >postfix server
> >which is used as a relay server
> >
> >I am confused about a few parameters
> >What is the difference between
> >address_verify_negative_expire_time and
> >address_verify_negative_refresh_time
>
> The expire time is the time at which an entry is considered
> no longer valid.
> The refresh time is the time postfix will attempt to verify
> the entry is still correct. If the entry is no longer
> correct (ie. no answer or a different answer) postfix will
> still wait *_expire_time before the status of the entry is
> changed.

Sorry, Didnt quiet get this. If postfix is anyway going to wait until
_expire_time then why have the _refresh_time parameter
Consider this
  1) Mail arrives for id in negative cache
  2) Cache Id is older than _refresh_time but not as old as _expire_time

Will this mail get rejected ?

Thanks
Ram