From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2006 - 15:08:18 CDT

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On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 01:57:57PM -0600, Count L?szl? de Alm?sy wrote:

> On 9/25/06, Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com> wrote:
> >Apple broke^H^H^H^H^Himproved the pickup(8) service in the MacOSX Postfix
> >distribution to be more "laptop friendly". As a result the pickup service
> >does not always see new mail in a timely fashion.
> >
> >Change the "pickup" line (who knew master.cf practices pickup lines :-)
> >in master.cf to the standard non-Apple value:
> >
> > pickup fifo n - n 60 1 pickup
> >
> >also change /etc/hostconfig:
> >
> > # MAILSERVER=-AUTOMATIC-
> > MAILSERVER=-YES-
> >
> >If this is a laptop, why are you running a mail server on your laptop?
>
> It's not a laptop, it's a PowerMac G5 that among some other things,
> handles mail service for a small group of people an an office.
>
> I made the change to /etc/hostconfig, but my master.cf already had the
> same pickup line as you suggest.
>
> # grep pickup /etc/postfix/master.cf
> # the pickup, queue manager and flush daemons need a wakeup timer.
> pickup fifo n - n 60 1 pickup
>
> So that appears not to be the problem. Any other ideas?

Yes, you are done. Now reboot. Postfix will now run all the time instead
of being controlled by an unreliable "maildrop" queue watcher.

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        Viktor.

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