Ing. Davy Leon:
> Hi again
>
> I'm having troubles with these again, let me explain myself better this
> time. I have a LAN with 10 PC conected to my linux box with postfix in it. I
> have a dialup link from the linux machine to the internet to deliver and
> fetch mail from our ISP. Due to bandwith limitation, I want Postfix to
> deliver the queue to the ISP one message at the time, I mean one by one
> until the queue is empty, but at the same time Postfix can accept conections
> of all the PC conected to the LAN.
>
> So, my question is if I set
>
> default_process_limit=1 in main.cf
>
> I'm telling Postix to run only one child processes, so it can't receive smtp
> conections from LAN while delivering to the ISP?
That is not what the documentation says.
default_process_limit (default: 100)
The default maximal number of Postfix child processes that provide a
given service.
Each "service" is an entry in master.cf.
Wietse
> I need clarification in this point. I need to process the queue one by one,
> but still can receive mail from my LAN in eth0 interface from several PC at
> the same time without delays.
>
> I apreciate your help
>
> David
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wietse Venema" <[email protected]>
> To: "Postfix users" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:00 AM
> Subject: Re: slow link
>
>
> > Ing. Davy Leon:
> >> Hello guys
> >>
> >> Before all, please forget my bad English.
> >> I'm newbie in postfix. I want to ask you a question. Let me explain
> >> the situation.
> >> I have a dialup link. When the link goes up automatically executes
> >> a postqueue -f command and mail is delivered. The problem is link
> >> speed, I'm getting timeouts and packet loss. I want to force
> >> postfix to deliver messages one by one.
> >
> > As root:
> >
> > # postconf -e default_process_limit=1
> > # postfix reload
> >
> > See also:
> > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#default_process_limit
> > http://www.postfix.org/master.5.html
> >
> > Wietse
> >
> >> I don't accept incoming
> >> smtp conections from other server. The incoming mail is fetched
> >> using fetchmail from a hosting server. How can I force postfix to
> >> deliver messages one by one?
> >>
> >> Thanks David
> >
>
>
>
