On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 07:32:06PM +0000, Matthias Nagel via Postfix-users
wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 22. November 2023, 19:01:23 CET schrieb postfix--- via
> Postfix-users:
> > > I am looking for an option to temporarily pause delivery via LMTP and
> > > defer mail while the Dovecot mailboxes are being backed-up in order to
> > > get an consistent state.
> >
> > Just take dovecot LMTP offline. Isn't the default behavior of postfix to
> > queue undeliverable mail and once its able to deliver, it will? No need to
> > bounce public mail with a 4xx error.
> >
>
> I don‘t want to bounce the mail publicly. I want Postfix to take it out of
> the active queue, put it into the deferred queue (on the *same* mail server)
> and Postfix shall attempt to re-deliver it later on.
>
> Taking Dovecot LMTP offline doesn‘t seem to be that easy either. So I was
> looking for an alternative on the Postfix side.
https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#defer_transports
--
Viktor.
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