-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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:-)
In that time, the mails that can not be scanned are merely deferred. After the maximal_queue_lifetime the mails will be bounced as undeliverable. If delay_warning_time is set though, Postfix may send delivery status notifications (DSN) and warn the sender that a mail could not be sent yet. This only applies to more recent versions of Postfix that support DSN (starting from version 2.3).
No, it wasn't that recent.
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. :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGh49ftTMYHG2NR9URAiLYAKCSxoHJHbuFIdJuAEKFVVCid6FqoACfeyvd QRHPzc5LbAB7A2x1rkbvVNA= =/SIL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org