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How a Postfix daemon process handles errors while opening lookup - tables: gradual degradation or immediate termination.
- - Gradual degradation: a
- daemon process logs a message of type "error" and continues execution
- with reduced functionality. Features that do not depend on the
- unavailable table will work normally, while features that depend
- on the table will result in a type "warning" message.
When
- the notify_classes parameter value contains the "data" class, the
- Postfix SMTP server and client will report transcripts of sessions
- with an error because a table is unavailable.
Immediate - termination: a daemon process logs a type "fatal" message and - terminates immediately. This option reduces the number of possible - code paths through Postfix, and may therefore be slightly more - secure than the default.
For the sake of sanity, the number of type "error" messages is - limited to 13 over the lifetime of a daemon process.
- -This feature is available in Postfix 2.9 and later.
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