> Postfix attempts to return bounced mail to the envelope sender address.
> If postfix receives a permanent error when trying to deliver the bounce
> message to the envelope sender, then the mail is discarded to prevent loops.
> Evidence of what happened and why is always recorded in the mail log.
I understand it can't send it anywhere (at least in my case, if the
relayhost rejects the message, there's nowhere to send the message
and/or the bounce), but can't it save the email in some local file,
at least?
Especially when the email originated locally (i.e. was not received via
SMTP but via /usr/sbin/sendmail)?
>> PS: Seeing now how postfix-users is happy to drop email on the floor,
>> I'm starting the feel like maybe Postfix will also be happy to silently
>> drop email on the floor, although that would make me wonder why it'd go
>> through so much trouble to fsync things to stable storage, then.
> The mailing list returns a message about unacceptable mail to the sender.
Never received any such notification, according to my mail log.
> Maybe you have more problems than you're aware of.
Could be, tho given the amount of email I have received and sent during
the days that I sent messages to postfix-users, it seems hard
to explain.
Stefan
