> Don't look under the hood unless you know what you are looking at. I agree with you Viktor but i am just trying to get a clear picture of postfix as a novice.
What my concern is what will happen after setting fast_flush_domains to relay domains and flushing the queue say at the time when the remote domain mentioned in fast_flush_domain is slow ? Will preemption of messages take place or will it effect the delivery process ? On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Victor Duchovni < victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12:57AM +0530, punit jain wrote: > > > I have a question regarding Flush daemon. I have set fast_flush_domains > to > > one of my local virtual domain i have hosted. > > This is almost never needed. The only domains for which you are likely > to have a large deferred queue are remotely delivered "relay_domains". > > > If i look into flush directory > > i find domain file with listing of queue files. The problem is i don't > have > > any mails in queue directory but still domain file in flush directory > shows > > queue files listing. How to remove these stale entries? Would it mean if > i > > run sendmail -qRdomain it will try delivering those queue files which > would > > waste CPU cycles ? > > - Don't list domains unnecessarily in fast_flush_domains. > > - Don't look under the hood unless you know what you are looking at. > > The "stale" entries are removed in due course. Keeping the list "fuzzy" > is more efficient than keeping it accurate at all times. > > -- > Viktor. > > Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. > Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. > > To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit > http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: > <mailto:majord...@postfix.org?body=unsubscribe%20postfix-users> > > If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not > send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put > "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly. >
