On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 04:04:59PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Either your Postfix source is modified, miscompiled, the binaries are
> > corrupted, or CPU is mal-functioning.
>
> Or he is running a Postfix version before 2.6.
>
> Citing the access(5) manpage:
>
> DEFER optional text...
> Reject the address etc. that matches the pattern. Reply with
> "$access_map_defer_code optional text..." when the optional text
> is specified, otherwise reply with a generic error response mes-
> sage.
>
> This feature is available in Postfix 2.6 and later.
Oops, I thought this was older. He reported running 2.5.5, so that
would explain the whole mess. In 2.5 "DEFER" is not an access(5) action
and so falls through to generic_checks, with the reported symptoms.
--
Viktor.
