Wietse Venema [mailto:wie...@porcupine.org] wrote:
> > Norm Mackey: > > The situation reached the point where the mail queue could not even > > be listed completely with postqueue without postqueue failing, and > > What was the failure? I suppose that after $daemon_timeout seconds > (1800s default) the daemon that lists the queue is terminated for > safety reasons. If there were other errors then I would like to > know. > > If you don't want to deliver example.com, a transport map with > > example.com discard: > > will do the job (Postfix 2.2 or later), as will an access map rule. -------------- The failure was logged in /var/log/mail/errors as messages like: > [r...@relay mail]# cat errors |grep "open files"|head -n 5 > Jan 19 00:39:43 relay postfix/qmgr[26415]: fatal: socket: Too many open files > Jan 19 00:40:48 relay postfix/qmgr[29208]: fatal: socket: Too many open files > Jan 19 00:42:07 relay postfix/qmgr[29255]: fatal: socket: Too many open files > Jan 19 00:43:25 relay postfix/qmgr[29328]: fatal: socket: Too many open files > Jan 19 00:44:43 relay postfix/qmgr[29523]: fatal: socket: Too many open files Norm
