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The Postfix memcache client allows you to hook up Postfix to a memcache server.
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The current implementation supports one memcache server per Postfix table, with
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one optional Postfix database that provides persistent backup. The Postfix
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memcache client supports the lookup, update, delete and sequence operations.
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The sequence (i.e. first/next) operation requires a backup database that
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supports this operation.
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Typically, the Postfix memcache client is used to reduce query load on a
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persistent database, but it may also be used to query a memory-only database
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for low-value, easy-to-recreate, information such as a reputation cache for
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postscreen(8), verify(8) or greylisting.
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* The Postfix memcache client cannot be used for security-sensitive tables
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such as alias_maps (these may contain "|command" and "/file/name"
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destinations), or virtual_uid_maps, virtual_gid_maps and
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virtual_mailbox_maps (these specify UNIX process privileges or "/file/name"
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destinations). Typically, a memcache database is writable by any process
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that can talk to the memcache server; in contrast, security-sensitive
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tables must never be writable by the unprivileged Postfix user.
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* The Postfix memcache client requires additional configuration when used as
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postscreen(8) or verify(8) cache. For details see the backup and ttl
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parameter discussions in the memcache_table(5) manual page.
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The Postfix memcache client has no external dependencies, and is therefore
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built into Postfix by default.
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Configuration is described in the memcache_table(5) manpage.
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The first memcache client for Postfix was written by Omar Kilani, and was based
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on the libmemcache library.
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Wietse wrote the current memcache client from the ground up for Postfix version
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2.9. This implementation does not use libmemcache, and bears no resemblance to
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