Ganiel, Thanks for the info. Actually, I am running OSX postfix. I installed Fink postfix after read`ing your message. Now I am wondering what the relationship is between OSX postfix and Fink postfix and what the differences are.
Thanks, John On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 10:41:27PM -0500, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > 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 -- John J. boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. www.chpi.org 6033 Monona Drive, suite 205; Madison, WI 53716 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
