[vPostMaster] warning: problem talking to serverprivate/vpm-pfpolicy

[Craig Isdahl]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vpostmaster-bounces at lists.tummy.com [mailto:vpostmaster-
> bounces at lists.tummy.com] On Behalf Of Scott Kleihege
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:59 PM
> To: vpostmaster at lists.tummy.com
> Subject: Re: [vPostMaster] warning: problem talking to serverprivate/vpm-
> pfpolicy
> 
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:53:32PM -0400, Craig Isdahl wrote:
> >We are seeing lots of the following in our logs; relevant lines grepped
> from
> >maillog:
> >
> >Mar 11 14:27:17 mail2 postfix/smtpd[9227]: warning: problem talking to
> >server private/vpm-pfpolicy: Connection timed out
> 
> In the current default configuration, the mailserver can run out of
> vpm-pfpolicy resources under high mail load.  vpm-pftransport runs after
> the message is accepted and runs the anti-spam settings, so needs to be
> limited to keep the load on the system down, however, vpm-pfpolicy
> consumes
> very little system resources, and you can run many instances.
> 
> In /etc/postfix/master.cf, the section
> 
> #  vPostMaster setup
> vpm-pfpolicy  unix  -       n       n       -       5       spawn
>   user=vpostmaster argv=/usr/lib/vpostmaster/postfix/vpm-pfpolicy
> vpm-pftransport unix  -       n       n       -       5       pipe
>     flags=Fqhu user=vpostmaster argv=/usr/lib/vpostmaster/postfix/vpm-
> pftransport $sender $recipient
> 
> You can change the vpm-pfpolicy line to
> 
> vpm-pfpolicy  unix  -       n       n       -       -       spawn
> 
> to allow up to the default (100) number of processes.  When you're
> finished, restart the postfix server.
> 
> /etc/init.d/postfix restart

Zero errors in the last hour!  It looks like that was the missing piece of
info.  I was adjusting those parameters but always at the same value (i.e.
both set to 30).  The box is cruising and mail is flying - just the way we
like it.  I'll post back if we have any more problems but it really looks
good right now.

Thanks!
Craig