Re: Postfix/Maildrop and too many connections issues

# sven(at)dmv(dot)com / 2005-06-21 15:00:12 -0400:
> We have a system set up whereby postfix and maildrop gather user info
> from a pg database (7.4.2 on FreeBSD 5.2.1) to do local mail acceptance
> and delivery. I have configured max connections at 512 but I find that
> this is not enough and I get "connection limit exceeded for
> non-superusers" errors. I see upon ps ax that there are hundreds of idle
> connections (state I).
>
> Is there any way on the server end to close these connections (the
> process is apparently for postfix and then maildrop to open a
> connection, run one select statement, and supposedly close the
> connection).

You are barking up the wrong software. See proxymap(8). (It's
mentioned in http://www.postfix.org/PGSQL_README.html)

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