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> Cit?t Wietse Venema <[email protected]>:
>
> > [email protected]:
> >>
> >> Cit?t Wietse Venema <[email protected]>:
> >>
> >> > Emanuel:
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >>
> >> >> It's possible bouncing email manually with the ID in the queue?
> >> >>
> >> >> In the documentati?n from de the command postqueue or postsuper i not
> >> >> find any information.
> >> >
> >> > That's because bounce by ID is not supported.
> >> >
> >> > You can bounce all mail for a specific recipient or a specific domain
> >> > with a transport map.
> >> >
> >> > /etc/postfix/main.cf
> >> > transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
> >> >
> >> > /etc/postfix/transport
> >> > example.com error:text why mail is bounced
> >> > [email protected] error:text why mail is bounced
> >> >
> >> > Instead of hash: you can use any Postfix darabase type.
> >> >
> >> > This also prevents the Postfix SMTP server from accepting new email
> >> > for that recipient or domain.
> >> >
> >> > A postsuper 'bounce' option would require
> >> > - Must be invoked by root.
> >> > - Drop privileges down to the postfix user.
> >> > - Lock the queue file for exclusive access.
> >> > - Either set a new flag in the queue file that the message must
> >> be bounced,
> >> > - Or for each recipient in the queue file send 'why mail is bounced'
> >> > to the bounce daemon.
> >> >
> >> > Wietse
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> But it would be REALLY usefull feature, i was searching for such thing
> >> some time ago too.
> >
> > Why? Someone was drunk and sent a bad email? Is "postsuper -d" not
> > sufficient?
> >
> > Wietse
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> Use case: Users are sending undeliverable e-mails which are filling up
> mail queue and you must wait few days until they are bounced. You
> cannot simply delete them because, if you do, sender won't know it's
> undeliverable and will send something to that address again in the
> future.
Why not set a smaller maximal_queue_lifetime?
Wietse
