Zach Wily: [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > Hi everyone. > > We've been using postfix + AuthSMTP for quite awhile for our outgoing emai >-l notifications. AuthSMTP is getting kind of expensive, so I'm trying to swi >-tch to Amazon's Simple Email Service. I've successfully configured postfix t >-o send through SES and it works great, but Amazon throttles you heavily unti >-l you've proven yourself as a good email citizen, so we can't just flip the >-switch to it. > > What I'd like to achieve is having amazon-ses as the default transport, an >-d when it starts getting failures, falling back to the authsmtp transport fo >-r some time before attempting aws-email again. This would let us send as muc >-h as possible through amazon, hopefully getting our quota raised quickly. (W >-e have an aws-email transport set up that sends through a perl script that r >-eturns an error on quota overages.) > > I've scoured the postfix config docs for a couple hours, but nothing stand >-s out to me as able to do this. The closest thing I can find are the *_desti >-nation_concurrency_* options, but those appear to be specific to destination >-s, not the transports themselves. > > Is there some way to accomplish this in postfix?
This was designed to implement a graveyard service for mail that can't be delivered via the preferred service. http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_fallback_relay Wietse
