I just upgraded to postfix-2.8-20101130 from postfix-2.8-20101108 I am seeing the following being logged
Dec 2 00:16:26 rosalia postfix/postscreen[8147]: fatal: bad numerical configuration: postscreen_client_connection_count_limit = Dec 2 00:16:27 rosalia postfix/master[5648]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/postscreen pid 8147 exit status 1 Dec 2 00:16:27 rosalia postfix/master[5648]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/postscreen: bad command startup -- throttling Here is the postconf output for the mentioned parameter (no change from default) postconf postscreen_client_connection_count_limit output: postscreen_client_connection_count_limit = $smtpd_client_connection_count_limit postconf smtpd_client_connection_count_limit output: smtpd_client_connection_count_limit = 50 If I explicitly put this in the main.cf postscreen_client_connection_count_limit = 50 and restart postfix, do not get the error message. John