Limiting warning mails
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From: "Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL" on 4 Feb 2010 08:00 Dear All, Yesterday i noticed that one of our smarthosts wasn't delivering mail anymore. Soon saw that both Domain Controllers that are being used for ldap lookups where down. Changed the ldap lookups to new domain controllers, immediatly afterwords the postmaster mailbox started to fill with these errors. Transcript of session follows. Out: 220 server ESMTP Postfix In: HELO host Out: 250 server In: Mail from:<email(a)address> Out: 250 2.1.0 Ok In: RCPT to:<email(a)address> Out: 451 4.3.0 <email(a)address>: Temporary lookup failure In: QUIT Out: 221 2.0.0 Bye Now i know that this is because we have "notify_classes = resource, software" enabled in main.cf Is there a way to limit the amount of warning mails that are sent? At the time we noticed the problem (US turned off their DC's while it was night in Holland) we received 350.000 warning mails in the postmaster box. I ended up in deleting and recreating the Postmaster box.... Thanks for any advise! - Marco van Kammen Springer Science+Business Media System Manager & Postmaster - van Godewijckstraat 30 | 3311 GX Office Number: 05E21 Dordrecht | The Netherlands - tel +31(78)6576446 fax +31(78)6576302 - www.springeronline.com www.springer.com -
From: Noel Jones on 4 Feb 2010 09:59
On 2/4/2010 7:00 AM, Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL wrote: > Dear All, > > Yesterday i noticed that one of our smarthosts wasn't delivering mail anymore. > Soon saw that both Domain Controllers that are being used for ldap lookups where down. > Changed the ldap lookups to new domain controllers, immediatly afterwords the postmaster mailbox started to fill with these errors. > > Transcript of session follows. > Out: 220 server ESMTP Postfix > In: HELO host > Out: 250 server > In: Mail from:<email(a)address> > Out: 250 2.1.0 Ok > In: RCPT to:<email(a)address> > Out: 451 4.3.0<email(a)address>: Temporary lookup failure > In: QUIT > Out: 221 2.0.0 Bye > > Now i know that this is because we have "notify_classes = resource, software" enabled in main.cf > Is there a way to limit the amount of warning mails that are sent? There is no setting to limit the number of warnings. It's either on or off. You may be able to set an upper limit with mailbox_size_limit (systemwide setting, only for local mailbox delivery), or quotas in your delivery agent. -- Noel Jones |