[CentOS] Re: How to delete mails in the mailq in ONE DAY -- POSTFIX

Ugo Bellavance ugob at lubik.ca
Fri Nov 30 13:05:11 UTC 2007


Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
> 
> I am runnig posfix on Centos 4.4 as a Mailgateway. It only accepts mails 
> for domains and then forwards mails to Lotus domino Server.

Ok

> All clients sends outgoing mails to that Lotus domino Server. Then , 
> That Lotus Domino Server sends mails to Postfix mailgateway. This 
> postfix mailgateway sends mails to all the destinations. But, This 
> Postfix mailgateway has about 150 messages in the mailq. Some are 
> unwanted mails. I think they keep trying until 5 days old. I want 
> decrease it to ONE DAY.

These messages are not harmfull, and you should keep your setting to 5 
days.  You'll thank you when your domino server stops accepting messages 
for some reasons for 25 hours or more... it can happen...

Ugo




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