tom lee a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:01 AM, ram <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 23:40 -0700, tom lee wrote:
>>> hello,
>>>
>>> I checked the doc about the mail relay in postfix and still not
>>> clear about two issues.
>>>
>>> I have mail sending from machine A to machine B, machine B is a relay
>>> server forwarding the email to machine C (target machine).
>>>
>>> I want to make sure there is no emails bouncing back from either
>>> machine B or machine C to machine A.
>>> can it be done?
>>>
>>> If machine C is down, relay machine B will spool all emails till
>>> machine C is up.
>>> what configuration adjustment should I make for relay machine B?
>>> is there a way to adjust the mail holding days in the relay machine B?
>> Do you want this limit for all mails , or only for mails to machine B ?
>>
>> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html
>>
>> Look for
>> bounce_queue_lifetime
>> maximal_queue_lifetime
>
> Ram,
> Thanks so much for your help.
> All mails sending from machine A via relaying machine B will arrive in
> machine C.
> I think I need to set up something in machine B so that there will be no mails
> bounce back to machine A.
if you want machine B to send no bounces, check whether
soft_bounce = yes
is good for you
> From your suggestion, I can see one way to do it is to set
> maximal_queue_lifetime and bounce_queue_lifetime to 30 days and run
> a script to delete all mails that is in the queue more than 15 day every day.
> Not sure if there is a better way to do it?
>
> Tom
