On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 16:24 -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > The question I have is that there doesn't appear to be any way to > indicate how many attempts the backup mail server should make at sending > email to the primary mail server before giving up, and also the delay > between attempts. Is this configurable with Postfix?
I googled around for a few minutes and found these: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#queue_run_delay http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#minimal_backoff_time http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#maximal_backoff_time http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#maximal_queue_lifetime How often a queued message gets tried can probably be estimated using the queue_run_delay, some number between minimal_backoff_time and maximal_backoff_time. I'd imagine your number of attempts would be how many times that estimate can happen in the maximal_queue_lifetime. More info: http://www.postfix.org/QSHAPE_README.html For what it's worth, here are the settings in Sendmail: warning interval: define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `4h')dnl fatal return mail: define(`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `5d')dnl minimum age of the queued message before resending is retried define(`confMIN_QUEUE_AGE', `0m') How often the queue is reviewed is specified by a parameter, usually 30 minutes: # sendmail -bd -q30m More info: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/tweaking_config.html ../troy /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
