On Mar 4, 2005, at 3:31 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
for the last few weeks I have been trying to find what to change in the Postfix configuration files to make it run continuously. No luck. It is shutting itself off after only a few hours, So I can't pick up new mail without restarting it. What can I do to fix this?
Thanks, John
Hi, I'm the postfix maintainer, but I'm not an expert on its configuration options. Once I got it working the way I wanted, I didn't touch it again. :)
The first thing to do is check /var/log/mail.log to find out what's causing it to stop. Look for messages with "postfix/" in them. Postfix should be logging why it's stopping. Once I have a better idea of why it's stopping, I can give you more advice.
One thing you can try now is if you have the following lines in your /sw/etc/postfix/master.cf
pickup fifo n - n 60 1 pickup cleanup unix n - n - 0 cleanup qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 qmgr #qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 oqmgr #tlsmgr fifo - - n 300 1 tlsmgr rewrite unix - - n - - trivial-rewrite bounce unix - - n - 0 bounce defer unix - - n - 0 bounce trace unix - - n - 0 bounce verify unix - - n - 1 verify flush unix n - n 1000? 0 flush
change them to
pickup fifo n - n - 1 pickup cleanup unix n - n - 0 cleanup qmgr fifo n - n - 1 qmgr #qmgr fifo n - n - 1 oqmgr #tlsmgr fifo - - n - 1 tlsmgr rewrite unix - - n - - trivial-rewrite bounce unix - - n - 0 bounce defer unix - - n - 0 bounce trace unix - - n - 0 bounce verify unix - - n - 1 verify flush unix n - n - 0 flush
i.e. change the 60, 300, 300, 300, 1000? to dashes. In any case, please let me know what happens.
-- Daniel Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/danielj7/publickey.txt
PGP.sig
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
