cderr:
> Greetings,
> We run postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.x86_64 and I would like to be able to
> temporarily manipulate the filesystem on the mailserver for a specific
> user (me actually), and not have to worry about doing this "quickly"
> before new incoming email arrives. Our authentication is via LDAP and I
> can obviously "hard bounce" email for my account quite easily. I'd be
> happy with either of the following options:
>
> 1. respond with a temporary delivery failure error code for just my user
Use a transport map:
u...@example.com retry:mailbox temporarily unavailable
This will still accept mail from SMTP, but will queue it. However
this is "fixed" as of yesterday, and Postfix 2.12 will send a 4xx
SMTP reply instead, so that mail stays in the sender's queue.
> 2. accept incoming email, but queue it (instead of immediately
> attempting to deliver to my homedir)
Oh, that was my answer to #1.
To accept then queue you could put this in $HOME/.forward:
"|exit 75"
As documented in local(8) or aliases(5) this will keep
mail queued until it is too old.
Wietse
> Is one (or both?) of these options doable by manipulating postfix
> configuration options? Apologies for asking the question before doing
> extensive research (I'm hoping someone can provide me the correct
> terms/options to investigate).
>
> thanks so very much in advance for your assistance,
> ~c
>
