* Victor Duchovni <postfix-users@postfix.org>:
> 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.

And if the transport_map still insists that messages to that subdomain should
still go to retry: delivery should never take place.

Strage. I wonder how that mail got delivered. Maybe friendly fire during
testing. RALF...!!! ;)

p...@rick

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