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On 24 May, 2013, at 1:27, wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: > Joe Wong: >>> Afaik this is the default behaviour. Postfix retries until >>> queue_lifetime is exceeded. >>> >>> Are you experiencing something else? Can you show the logs, when the >>> mail with queueid "92B8BCC3DE" got into the system? >> >> It bounced right after the first attempt. > > That is what should happen. The DNS server replied that the > destination does not exist. > > Postfix will retry when the DNS server is unavailable. > > This of course, assumes that the DNS server is working properly. > If it replies with DOES NOT EXIST for other errors then all bets > are off. > > You can kludge around this with soft_bounce=yes but that creates > other problems, such as people never finding out that their > mail is stuck in the queue. > > Wietse Thx Wietse.
