Noel, > max_queue_lifetime will reduce the amount of time undeliverable mail > hangs around in the queue, regardless of the reason. > > You can set it lower, but with caution -- postfix can't tell the > difference between a domain that will never work and some legit > domain that happens to be down for maintenance/power/whatever > temporary reason. The default is 5 days, with good reason.
Yeah, this is to get us out of a bad spot on a mailman server. The original server (not run by me) failed with year-old backups. At this point there's literally hundreds of completely obsolete email addresses, and retries are eating all the system resources on the VPS. I'd rather have a few false positives and clean out the dreck; the folks kicked off the list can resubscribe. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
