On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Ashwin Muni wrote: > I have a query i want postfix not to try sending mails to a destination > which is dead. Does postfix maintains cache or is there any settings to be > done for it. Tried googleing found this two directives. But dont exactly > know it really works . > > minimal_backoff_time = 86400 > > maximal_backoff_time = 86400 > > Ex: I'm sending a mail to xyz.com and my server could not connect to the > xyz.com smtp server. My mail gets deffered and then it tries as per my > setting but later another user of mine tries to send mail to the same domain > and it happens again. I dont want postfix to try instead it can check the > cache for the domain and not try delivering it.
If you set minimal_backoff_time as high as 86400s, xyz.com's SMTP server might become reachable in a few minutes, but qmgr(8) will not try to deliver for another day! Is this what you want? -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
