Jim Seymour via Postfix-users: > Hi All, > > While refactoring pflogsumm, and regression-testing the pre- and > post-refactor code against a corpus of Postfix log samples (21 files, > ~455k lines), two differences traced back to lines like the following > (edited to use example addresses/IPs): > > Jan 1 12:10:48 hostname postfix/qmgr[10922]: 739A2783CBA: > to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<[email protected]>, > relay=none, delay=76608, status=deferred (delivery temporarily > suspended: connect to hostname.example.com[192.0.2.1]: > Connection timed out)
When a destination has "enough" consecutive delivery failures, further delivery attempts would be wasteful, like flogging a dead horse. Instead, the scheduler puts the destination to a temporary 'dead' list and avoids further delivery attempts. See: https://www.postfix.org/SCHEDULER_README.html#dead_summary_2_5 Wietse _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
