On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 17:16:52 +0200, Leon Meßner wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 04:39:22PM +0200, Pascal Volk wrote: > > On 05/22/2011 04:24 PM Leon Meßner wrote: > > > Hi, > > > i'm curious if there is a mechanism to stop postfix from delivering mail > > > for just specific recipients. I ask because i need to migrate some users > > > mail storage and need to umount it. It would be nice to generate no > > > errors and just hold the mails in the queue until i release them again. > > > > /etc/postfix/main.cf: > > transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport > > > > /etc/postfix/transport: > > john....@example.com retry:4.0.0 Mailbox being migrated > > jane....@exmpale.com retry:4.0.0 Mailbox being migrated > > > > postmap /etc/postfix/transport && postfix reload > > If i understand right, this will send 4.0.0 as smtp status code and thus > force a retry on the other end. This will suffice i suppose.
You misunderstand. As documented in error(8), when the service name is retry, Postfix defers all recipients in the delivery request using the next-hop information as the reason for non-delivery. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@freebsd.org>
