On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

> On Friday 30 January 2009 21:12:30 Victor Duchovni wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:42:22PM -0900, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
> > > 1) Accept mail for example.com as primary MX (yes, possible)
> > > 2) Relay to mx2.example.com (yes, possible)
> > > 3) If mx2.example.com gives fatal error, reduce to transient and try
> > > again later (not sure if relay -o soft_bounce=yes would cover it)
> >
> > This also will work.
> 
> So to confirm, relay -o soft_bounce=yes in master.cf will reduce any 5xx 
> replies it receives from the exchange server to 4xx?

Yes, http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#soft_bounce.

> > > 4) Magically catch the accepted mail that bounces after completed
> > > transaction (mailbox is full primarily. Spoof MAIL FROM: dialog?)
> >
> > This is getting too "creative". Probably easier to deliver a Bcc stream
> > of the mail, and provide access to missed mail on demand.
> 
> Yes, I'm thinking this too. But I'd like to have a log mailed to them (a 
> seperate account that's not touched by exchange) via cron, so they can see 
> subjects and senders, so I will probably create a 'backup' service in 
> master.cf that does all the stuff. It would be equivalent to an alias like 
> this:
> 
> @example.com  localmailbox, |logthis, relay:[mx2.example.com]

Hm, and where is this access map syntax documented?

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Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>

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