On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:21:11PM +0100, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> > You may be surprised to learn that defer_transports is implemented
> > by sending mail to the retry(8) delivery agent (Postfix 2.4 and
> > later). If you specify retry: in a transport map then it will have
> > the same effect.
>
> Not quite - at least from what I learned from testing. It holds a message
> for a while, but then I observed Postfix releases the message after a
> short while.
The message is not on "hold" it is deferred. So naturally it is
periodically retried.
If you want mail routed out of the queue, create an instance to
which it can be routed, where it is always put on hold.
> Is that time controlled by $transport_retry_time (?). If it is, can I set it
> to unlimited e.g. $transport_retry_time = 0. I didn't play with that yet...
No.
--
Viktor.
