Doug Denault:
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2023, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 10:35:43PM -0500, Doug Denault wrote:
> >
> >> With my setup no warning is deferred errors such as 'time out' or
> >> 'Connection refused' until the message is delete from the queue.
> >>
> >> I added:
> >>
> >> delay_warning_time = 8h
> >>
> >> to main.cf. This made no difference so I assume an additional setting is
> >> required, but I could not find anything.
> >
> > This setting only affects *new* messages. Messages already in the queue
> > will not elicit the warning. There's a queue-file record for that...
>
> I'm sorry I was not clear. New messages do not get the warning.
>
> This is a FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p7. postfix 3.6.2_1
Postfix does not immediately send "delayed mail" warnings as soon
as a message exceeds the warning time limit. That would not scale.
Instead, Postfix attempts to deliver a message, and when that attempt
fails, it sends a "delayed mail" warning message once.
Wietse
