Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1532 mails)

[Sandy Drobic <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
> The Saturday 2007-06-30 at 14:37 +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote:
> 
>>> They timed out at 30 minutes, I think.
>> Nope, When Postfix has accepted a mail its already in your queue. At that
>> point the maximal_queue_lifetime starts.
> 
>> # postconf maximal_queue_lifetime
>> maximal_queue_lifetime = 5d
> 
> Well, that was perhaps two years ago, so I don't remember what limit did I 
> hit, but I do remember postfix complaining about 30 minutes of something 
> being sxceeded without response from the filter, and doing something about 
> it, which I don't remember now what it was exactly. Perhaps bounce to the 
> postmaster, or tell the postmaster, or something - what I remember is my 
> nerves straining! O:-)

If you still have the config then check what notify_classes were set to.

>> In the meantime, your log will fill with timeouts. There are a lot of
>> options to set timeouts that fit your situation:
> 
> No need, I solved it throtlling the queue to one mail at a time, fed to 
> amavis. And I only use it for emergencies nowdays.
> 
> But nice to have this list handy, I'll keep it. :-)

Development was rather fast in the last two years.
Better use the list that applies to your installation:

# all timeout parameters of current config
postconf | grep timeout
# all default timeout parameters
postconf -d| grep timeout
# parameters you have set manually:
postconf -n| grep timeout


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Sandy

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