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Re: Instance on policies

egoitzinfobiok.com
Date: Wed Apr 02 2008 - 03:46:24 CDT


Nobody knows the answer to this frecuency of repetition of postfix
instances? should I ask perhaps in development mailing list?

> Hi mates,
>
>
> I'm finishing and doing last checks to my policy done in perl for
> postfix... it's used for rejecting mail at smtp time if the mailbox you're
> gonna deliver is overquota... but have found a little problem... sometimes
> when connection is hung after finishing receiving mail or someone does
> ehlo, mail from, rcpt to, quit... the instance with this recipients is not
> removed from the table of my database wich has the next format :
>
> instance, recipient, timestamp.
>
>
> one line per recipient of email.
>
> So I though could be a nice idea adding the field seen before with the
> timestamp and remove all records older than one hour from the mysql table.
>
> And at the end my doubt : wich frecuency can an instance be repeated in
> postfix? I say this because if the connection is hung or someone types
> what I have set before the record is not deleted from the table till it
> has more than an hour old... could within an hour be repeated the
> instance?? it's difficult setting lower times because if a mail is big and
> you're connection has a little bandwitdh it's easy the transaction to take
> half an hour or so...
>
> so could with in an hour period repeat the instance given to a mail
> transaction by postfix?
>
> Thanks a lot mates!!
>
>