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

Fri Nov 30 07:42:16 UTC 2007
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>


On Fri, 30 Nov 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> In Sendmail, this can be done by editing sendmail.mc  as below.
>
>
> (`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `5d')dnl
>
> changing above line to below line
>
> (`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `1d')dnl
>
>
> How Can I do it in Postfix?

It should be one of these:

bounce_queue_lifetime = 1d
maximal_queue_lifetime = 1d