On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:25:41AM -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
> The best practice for "occasional" fairly brief (less than a couple days)
> outages is just ignore them. Postfix should handle things pretty well up
> to several thousand deferred messages. If you're expecting tens of
> thousands of deferred messages, then maybe a script to defer_transports or
> to put everything on HOLD until the network is back up.
Make that several tens of thousands of deferred messages, but as the
queue starts growing to 100,000+ deferred messages, the congestion can
get too severe (retries of the deferred queue can dominate the active
queue and gum everything up).
--
Viktor.
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