Very slow processing of postfix incoming queue

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Sat Nov 5 18:30:49 UTC 2016


Change qmgr to fifo is master.cf

The install script does this for you. You should use it.

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Jerry Benton
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> On Nov 5, 2016, at 14:24, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/05/2016 10:00 AM, Polleke wrote:
>> As you can in the below logs, processing of the postfix incoming mail
>> queue (after mailscanner scanning the messages...) is veeeeerrrrry slow
>> 
>> It takes almost 4 minutes before the postfix quemanager picks op the
>> mail from the incoming queue
> 
> 
> This is really a Postfix qmgr question. You might have more success
> asking on a Postfix list.
> 
> That said, Mailscanner queues the incoming message in Postfix's incoming
> queue in the WriteHeader subroutine in MailScanner/PFDiskStore.pm. This
> subroutine updates timestamps on the incoming/ and subordinate
> directories and file, but it doesn't notify qmgr with an 'I' message
> (see man qmgr), but I don't know how to do that.
> 
> There is also a potential race in that it updates the timestamps before
> placing the file in the queue.
> 
> Maybe someone with more knowledge of Postfix internals can help.
> 
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