vvrpgsporcupineorg nhedubwzrousonnectionnl question currently slownonresponsive script invoked pipe transport generate bounce unresponsive long possible handle slownonresponsive script tempfail condition repeatedly work fail im sorry clear context question situation application called via pipe quite important customer normally runs fine months sporadically eg two years application experience problem may respond properly timely fashion monitoring active problem last max hours want prevent mail bounced time ideally sender mail would get bounces instead mail accepted remote smtp client queued problem solved case need batch queuing system operator suspend abort jobs case trouble resume restart jobs trouble taken care postfix pipetocommand feature solves different problem email deliveries either fail succeed take lot time setting test_time_limit _very_ long time seems solution number processes may grow large number final setup problem situation configure safe process limit mastercf thats option happen process limit reached new mail comes bounced kept queue process slot available postfix reject mail delivery slower arrival queues someone make money selling disk drives feed mouths hungry kids wietse tue 05 aug 2008 205349 0500 tempfail condition slow nonresponsive piped script