--- In post...@yahoogroups.com, wie...@... (Wietse Venema) wrote: > > Jeff Weinberger: > > This may seem like an odd question, but I need to find a way to > > suspend delivery of mail to one account or one domain for a short > > period of time to allow me to do a bit of maintenance. > > > > As it stands now, I use maildrop as my delivery transport for virtual > > mailboxes. > > > > Is there a way to tell postfix to hold the mail in its queue until I > > tell it I'm ready? > > /etc/postfix/transport: > u...@... retry:4.4.1 Service unavailable > another.example.com retry:4.4.1 Service unavailable > > > Is this as simple as having maildrop return a temporary failure code? > > That would work, too. > > Postfix will return mail when it exceeds $maximal_queue_lifetime. > > > and if that happens, postfix will retry at certain intervals (or on > > postqueue -f) right? And if that is a good way to do it, what return > > code should maildrop return? > > If using pipe-to-command: /usr/include/sysexits.h's EX_TEMPFAIL > If using LMTP: a suitable 4XX numeric code. > > Wietse >
Thank you - I should have thought of the transport map also. i appreciate your help!
