Hi Clint, Would you mind posting your script/strategy on cleaning these messages out? Not to help me answer your question, but because I would love to do what you have done yourself :-)
Thanks, Stu Clint Miller wrote: > I have emails that accumulate in the Postfix deferred queue with messages > like: > > * (connect to comcat.net[216.3.71.208]:25: No route to host) > * (connect to schollnet.com[208.73.210.27]:25: Connection refused) > * (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for > name=oasis.org.autype=MX: Host not found, try again) > * (connect to a34-mta04.direcpc.com[66.82.4.105]:25: Operation timed out) > > These examples above are just a snapshot of the type of error messages I see > in the deferred queue- I'm not asking for specific information about these > messages. > > The error messages all make sense as to what happened or what's not > configured correctly on the receiving end. I know Postfix will try to > deliver them again at increasing intervals (as configured). How long will > that retry process go on? Will they eventually be moved into the hold queue? > Will they ever actually bounce back to the SMTP MAIL FROM (return-path) > sender? > > I know how to clean them out and I even wrote a little script to help me > with that, but I couldn't find a lot of detailed documentation that > described what would happen in these types of undeliverable cases. > > Thanks! > > Clint >
