From: Wietse Venema on
Wietse Venema:
> Vernon A. Fort:
> > The maximal_queue_lifetime-30s was for testing only - its normally set
> > for 1d. The sole issues is to prevent mail from bouncing back if we
> > don't get the encrypted volume mounted and cyrus started back up soon
> > enough. A reasonable example would be if the server rebooted due to a
> > power hiccup and we did not get the notifications quick enough.
> >
> > For now, i have a startup script to set the maximal_queue_lifetime to 1w
> > using postconf -e. This seems to do the trick.
>
> Another option is
>
> postconf -e "master_service_disable = unix.local"

make that: local.unix (the connection type comes last).

> Or even:
>
> postconf -e "master_service_disable = qmgr.fifo"
>
> (requires Postfix 2.6 or later).
>
> Wietse
>
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