On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:25:41AM -0500, Noel Jones wrote: > The best practice for "occasional" fairly brief (less than a couple days) > outages is just ignore them. Postfix should handle things pretty well up > to several thousand deferred messages. If you're expecting tens of > thousands of deferred messages, then maybe a script to defer_transports or > to put everything on HOLD until the network is back up.
Make that several tens of thousands of deferred messages, but as the queue starts growing to 100,000+ deferred messages, the congestion can get too severe (retries of the deferred queue can dominate the active queue and gum everything up). -- Viktor. Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: <mailto:majord...@postfix.org?body=unsubscribe%20postfix-users> If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.