Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Remy Lambert
I'm a Postfix n00b, so I may be asking a loaded question...but here goes: Recently, a user of mine sent an email to an incorrect address - he garbled the domain name. It took six days for our mail server to decide that it was undeliverable... Basically, the (incorrect) domain name actually res

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Remy Lambert: > I'm a Postfix n00b, so I may be asking a loaded question...but here goes: > > Recently, a user of mine sent an email to an incorrect address - > he garbled the domain name. It took six days for our mail server > to decide that it was undeliverable... [snip] Indeed, the mail syste

RE: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Remy Lambert
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:49 AM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Deferred queue settings? Remy Lambert: > I'm a Postfix n00b, so I may be asking a loaded question...but here goes: > > Recently, a user of mine sent an email to an incorrect address - > he garbled the domain

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse > Thanks for your help! > > -Rem > -Original Message- > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org > [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Wietse Venema > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:49 AM > To: Postfix users > Subject: Re: Deferred

RE: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Remy Lambert
ix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Wietse Venema Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:20 AM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Deferred queue settings? Remy Lambert: > Awesome, this is what I needed - thanks! > > I see that what ended up happening in my case is the > "bounce_queu

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 9/2/2009, Remy Lambert (rlamb...@healthforcepartners.com) wrote: > Regarding the error counts, I see what you're getting at - when > taking into consideration how often a message can be retried over any > given span of time, it makes error count pretty irrelevant. I > suppose if I want the mess

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 02:04:12PM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 9/2/2009, Remy Lambert (rlamb...@healthforcepartners.com) wrote: > > Regarding the error counts, I see what you're getting at - when > > taking into consideration how often a message can be retried over any > > given span of time

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 9/2/2009, Victor Duchovni (victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com) wrote: > A bit too soon, given typical grey-listing minimum retry timers. I > would not send delay notices sooner than an hour after a message has > been queued. FWIW, I use a 2 hour delay warning. Hmmm... I just realized why we have

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread LuKreme
On 2-Sep-2009, at 11:09, Remy Lambert wrote: I come from the land of MS Exchange so, although I'm competent I'm not sure one is allowed to use "MS Exchange" and "competent" in the same sentence without a negation. Only half kidding :) -- A marriage is always made up of two people who are p

RE: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Remy Lambert
immediately - thanks again for pointing this out! -Rem -Original Message- From: Charles Marcus [mailto:cmar...@media-brokers.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:04 AM To: Remy Lambert Cc: 'Postfix users' Subject: Re: Deferred queue settings? On 9/2/2009, Remy Lambert

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Wietse Venema
LuKreme: > On 2-Sep-2009, at 11:09, Remy Lambert wrote: > > I come from the land of MS Exchange so, although I'm competent > > I'm not sure one is allowed to use "MS Exchange" and "competent" in > the same sentence without a negation. > > Only half kidding :) LuKreme, stick to the technical to