Viktor Dukhovni: > > > > On Sep 14, 2018, at 5:41 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> > > wrote: > > > > Postfix 2.3-20051202 introduced conditionally compiled code for a "DELAY" > > access(5) action, but this never became a default-enabled feature. You'd > > need to compile Postfix with "-DDELAY_ACTION" to get it, and I don't know > > how recently this was last tested. It may no longer work, and perhaps was > > never ready for prime-time (otherwise might have made it as a standard > > feature into some release). > > The pertinent comment in the code is: > > + /* > + * The DELAY feature is disabled because it has too many problems. 1) It > + * does not work on some remote file systems; 2) mail will be delivered > + * anyway with "sendmail -q" etc.; 3) while the mail is queued it bogs > + * down the deferred queue scan with huge amounts of useless disk I/O > + * operations. > + */ > > These concerns are not insurmountable if the file-system is not uncooperative, > and the volume of delayed mail is small, but they do stand in the way of this > being a mainstream Postfix feature as-is.
Would it be a problem to execute a 'HOLD' action, and this avoid the queue pollution problem? Wietse