By design, all Postfix programs can fail, and therefore must retry. If the cleanup daemon fails, the pickup daemon must retry. Likewise, if a delivery agent or bounce daemon fails, the queue manager must retry. Also, queue files may be moved around with postsuper or postqueue.
If a queue rescan doesn't happen, then mail can appear to be stuck in the queue. Wakeups ensure that Postfix is reliable. I could delete most of the Postfix code if it never fails, but that would make it less reliable. Suggesting that these programs are running continuously is not fair. Instead, they sleep. If the file system activity bothers you then somene could add a few stat() calls and skip directories that have no recently modified time stamp. Wietse _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org