dan lists vmuavwuogmailcom 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 mean policy daemons timeout needs exceed smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout thanks dan thu 07 aug 2008 013147 0600 policy server causing close_wait