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Subject: Re: whoe, how to get these back?
From: Meng Weng Wong (mengwongdumbo.pobox.com)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 14:06:15 CDT

personally, i think site hog limitation is a wonderful
feature, and i have qmgr_site_hog_factor < 100 on all my
machines.

to a novice sysadmin who hasn't had the time to read all the
docs, though, the message "site destination queue overflow"
is somewhat mystifying and therefore alarming; it has
prompted regular messages to the list asking "what's going
on? is the sky falling?"

i am sympathetic to this misinterpretation because "queue
overflow" looks, at first glance, like a Bad Thing: when
things overflow, mail might be getting lost, or worse!

i propose that either

a) qmgr not produce that message at all, or

b) we change the string to look less like an error warning
   and more like an informational message: perhaps it could
   say "delivery attempt intentionally skipped to prevent
   site from hogging active queue".

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 06:41:23AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
| It's spillover into the deferred queue, and the mail will be
| delivered. To disable this feature, specify in main.cf:
|
| qmgr_site_hog_factor = 100
|
| This means that Postfix delivers mail in strict first in first out
| sequence, which is slow for non-list mail if you're delivering to
| a large mailing list.
|