On 3/31/2010 9:58 PM, Noel Jones wrote:
On 3/31/2010 7:41 PM, Vernon A. Fort wrote:
I have a setup where the local deliver using cyrus-imapd is located on
an encrypted volume. When the server is rebooted, we will manually mount
the volume and start the cyrus application. However, until we start
cyrus, how can i configure postfix to accept email but defer or hold the
local deliver indefinitely?
we do have the maximal_queue_lifetime set to 1 day. I have set the
defer_transports = local, soft_bounce = yes but when i setup the
maximal_queue_lifetime to say 30 seconds, the message does get bounced
back. Any suggestions?
Vernon
Why in the world would you set maximal_queue_lifetime to 30s???
Please point the gun away from your foot.
The proper way to configure postfix to defer mail when cyrus is not
available is to ... do nothing. Let the connections to cyrus fail and
allow postfix to retry as it normally does.
Is there some reason normal postfix scheduling and defer/retry won't
work for you? Then describe the original problem and maybe a better
solution can be found.
-- Noel Jones
The maximal_queue_lifetime-30s was for testing only - its normally set
for 1d. The sole issues is to prevent mail from bouncing back if we
don't get the encrypted volume mounted and cyrus started back up soon
enough. A reasonable example would be if the server rebooted due to a
power hiccup and we did not get the notifications quick enough.
For now, i have a startup script to set the maximal_queue_lifetime to 1w
using postconf -e. This seems to do the trick.
Vernon
