Mark Goodge:
> Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Mark Goodge:
> >>
> >> The cache has two main functions:
> >>
> >> 1. To reduce traffic between the gateway and destination server, and
> >> reduce load on both.
> >>
> >> 2. To allow the gateway server to correctly handle mail
> >> acceptance/rejection when the destination server is unreachable.
> >
> > If the cache is good enough for 2) then it makes no sense to
> > skip the cache for 1).
>
> It would if even the short lag for cached failures (or, for that matter,
> cached successes) to expire is unacceptable. A typical example might be
If the cache is NOT good enough for 1) then it is NOT good enough
for 2), either. Therefore do NOT use the cache.
Wietse
