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Subject: Re: Full queue and postfix dies
From: Tass (tassmorag.kenderhome.com)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 09:25:34 CDT

My apologies, I did not mean it "crashes" per se, but it does stop
functioning in a nice manner.

It is true that postfix is running, and will accept incoming connections,
just it can not do anything with them, and the final crash occurs when the
system fills up (which is an OS issue).

Please note that I did not say it crashes, just it stops working, which
was not quite correct. I should have said "Postfix becomes unable to
process the queue or accept new emails, while still accpeting incoming
connections".

Does this configuration parameter shut off the incoming smtp connections?
Or does it issue a 4.x.x code to the sender ?

BTW-> For what it is worth, so far we have been blown away with the
stability and speed of Postifx ,a dn use it in over 200 servers to
deliver 200K emails/hr (:

 On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Wietse Venema wrote:

> Postfix survives disk full conditions without crashing, thank you
> very much. Please substantiate your claims about Postfix crashing
> or else don't make such claims.
>
> In order to stop receiving mail when the disk runs out of space,
> specify "queue_minfree = $message_size_limit".
>
> Read http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/resource.html for
> more information.
>
> Wietse
>
> Tass:
> > We have a problem that happens every now and then..
> >
> > The incoming/active/bounce queue (take your pick) fills up so much that we
> > hit 100%+ disk capacity. This then cause postfix to stop working as it can
> > no longer process mail, yet it keeps trying to accept mail. Is there patch
> > or configuration setup that will cause Postfix to stop accepting email?
> >
> > I have created a basic shell script that runs every 3 minutes and check
> > disk cap, but it would be nice if Postfix had someway to do this on its
> > own though.
>
> Wietse
> 

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