vvrpgsporcupineorg dan lists feb 19 2008 1246 pm wietse venema wrote design postfix smtpd process keeps policy server connection open terminates amount idle time idea avoid overhead spawning expensive perl python etc script every individual smtp connection good man work system instead fighting thats im trying question postfix parameter need match daemons timeout bumped timeout daemon 320 seconds im still seeing timeouts checked timeouts happening tls connections looks like tls connections leave connections open policy service long around appear use smtpd_policy_service_max_idle behavior depend tls give timer hour done wietse thu 07 aug 2008 024008 0500 policy server causing close_wait