Re: lmtp throttled?

* Jonathan Zdziarski <jonathan@nuclearelephant.com>:
> Hi there,
>
> I've got postfix using lmtp as a transport to another application,
> which then processes the message and performs delivery to one of many
> mail servers on its own via SMTP, returning whatever response code was
> returned by the final delivery host. For some reason, when one
> destination host goes down, postfix appears to throttle itself and
> only open up 5 lmtp connections to the transport (as evidenced by the
> output of ps):

This is normal:
initial_destination_concurrency = 5

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