On 9/18/2012 8:38 AM, Stéphane MERLE wrote: > Hi, > > I think that I miss something here, we have those 2 parameters set > in our postfix configuration : > > bounce_queue_lifetime = 8h > maximal_queue_lifetime = 8h
This is a very short lifetime; the default is 5 days. People who set a very short queue lifetime are often trying to solve the wrong problem, for example, accepting mail for unknown local users. > > so, I thought that no mail will stay in the queue after 8h, however, > I can see that mails are in the active queue for more than 1280 > minutes : Expired mail will be returned/removed after the next delivery attempt. -- Noel Jones
