On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 08:28:48AM -0500, Joan Moreau wrote: > the postfix queue manager (qmgr) is taking far too much > resources
What does "too much resources" mean? CPU? disk I/O? RAM? > when the number of email pending is growing. Treat the disease not the symptoms, why is the deferred queue large in the first place? > Is there a way to move "/var/spool/postfix" in a MySQL database ? No, the Postfix queue uses the unix filesystem. Your mailstore can be a database if you have suitable delivery agents, but the Postfix queue cannot. This is a good thing. Now solve the real problem. -- Viktor.