On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 19:36:46 -0400, b...@bitrate.net wrote:
> i have an mx which then subsequently delivers incoming mail from the
> internet to another computer [ via relay_transport =
> relay-mda:[mda.example.com]:smtp-relay ] for further processing.
> while performing some maintenance on mda.example.com, i'd like to
> configure postfix on the mx to accept all mail as it has been, but
> instead of then delivering to mda.example.com, retain all mail until
> it is manually released. it looks like the hold queue may be
> appropriate for this? how can i accomplish this?
Rather than the hold queue, use the retry service.
/path/to/main.cf:
transport_maps = hash:/path/to/transport
/path/to/transport:
mda.example.com retry:4.2.1 mda.example.com is temporarily disabled
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Sahil Tandon
