Jozsef Kadlecsik:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > Jozsef Kadlecsik:
> > >
> > > How could one achieve that the held messages are separated from the normal
> > > traffic (i.e. hold queue on another partition), but if the messages cannot
> > > be held, then those gets rejected instead of queued?
> >
> > Given Postfix's architecture, a loosely-coupled pipeline without
> > global feedback, there is no obvious way to build global feedback
> > into Postfix itself.
> >
> > I suggest that you run an email monitoring system. When the secondary
> > system stops accepting mail for more than some minimum amount of
> > time (allowing enough time for the system to reboot), update the
> > configuration on the primary system.
>
> Yes, monitoring is inevitable. And that imply you would prefer the two
> instances setup :-).
>
> Just as a theoretical question, would it fit somehow into Postfix to
> support the hold queue *alone* in a separated partition?
The architecture requires Postfix can move messages between queues
without having to make copies.
Wietse
