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Re: Maximum smtp process limit has been reached.

From: Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandtcharite.de)
Date: Thu Jul 02 2009 - 17:33:28 CDT


* Jaroslaw Grzabel <jarekmeil.me>:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry I didn't include any information about version. My postfix version is
> 2.3.3 installed from yum (Centos 5).
>
> Yeah, I read about stress mode and it looks really good. Anyway I would
> rather want to stop reciving connection from postfix than hang the whole
> server.

Yes, so activate the stress mode

> The problem is, Noel advised me to increase default_process_limit but I've
> already done it and later postfix hanged with the same message as below.

Well, so you're under attack. Activate the stress mode. Try stuff like
fail2ban.

> I think the parameter default_destination_recipient_limit is
> responsible for that.

Why?
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