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Re: number of smtpds/postgrey

Subject: Re: number of smtpds/postgrey
From: Homer Wilson Smith <homer AT lightlink DOT com>
To: Noel Jones <njones AT megan.vbhcs DOT org>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:25:50 -0400 (EDT)

    Thank you for your swift answer.

    Unfortunately setting default_process_limit to 0
results in load going to infinity, and everything breaking.

    Also the grey listing that we are using is not the
one that came with postfix, but the one at greylist.org.

Postgrey seems also to have a process limit, although it may be the process limit of the machine. I am out of my league here.

    Homer


most of which were empty, had to increase smtpds to
500 to deal, but postgrey barfed much above
250.

    Running FC3.  Is there an upper limit to smtpd
for postgrey's sake?  CAn postgrey be changed?

    Thanks in advance.  Homer


From HISTORY:

20070430

       Robustness: recommend a "0" process limit for policy servers
       to avoid "connection refused" problems when the smtpd process
       limit exceeds the default process limit.  File:
       proto/SMTPD_POLICY_README.html.


http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_POLICY_README.html#greylist
(see note for line 2)

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Noel Jones

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