On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Sahil Tandon wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Noel Jones wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:41:59PM -0800, Jeff Weinberger wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Jan 14, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Jeff Weinberger wrote:
> > > >>This may seem like an odd question, but I need to find a way to  
> > > >>suspend delivery of mail to one account or one domain for a short  
> > > >>period of time to allow me to do a bit of maintenance.
> > > >>As it stands now, I use maildrop as my delivery transport for  
> > > >>virtual mailboxes.
> > > >>Is there a way to tell postfix to hold the mail in its queue until  
> > > >>I tell it I'm ready?
> > > >
> > > >I've used a pretty simple trick of putting the domain in the  
> > > >header_checks.regexp file.
> > > >
> > > >header_checks.regexp
> > > >
> > > >/^To: ....@example.com/                        HOLD
> > > >
> > > >
> > 
> > Using header_checks for this is unreliable; there is no guarantee the 
> > recipient
> > will be listed in the To: header.  You're not listed in To: in this 
> > message, but
> > you receive it anyway.
> > 
> > You can use HOLD with a check_recipient_access map reliably, that's another 
> > good way to temporarily pause delivery.
> 
> I think this affects all recipients of the message, so the OP probably wants 
> to
> use transport_maps to limit holding/queuing only for a particular sent of 
> recipients.

s/sent/set/

:)

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Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>

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