Re: Force Delivery Failure

2009-12-18 Thread Carlos Williams
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > "postconf -d" shows built-in defaults, not the settings currently used.  For > current settings, use "postconf". Woops. > These are temporary errors that postfix rightfully keeps in the queue.  A > computer can't tell the difference between a

Re: Force Delivery Failure

2009-12-18 Thread Noel Jones
On 12/18/2009 4:15 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote: I think you might be trying to solve the wrong problem. Why queue mail for destinations that don't have MX records (typoed domain part, etc)? Better to return undeliverable to senders I would thi

Re: Force Delivery Failure

2009-12-18 Thread Carlos Williams
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote: > I think you might be trying to solve the wrong problem.  Why queue > mail for destinations that don't have MX records (typoed domain part, > etc)?  Better to return undeliverable to senders I would think.  This > is different than mail to domai

Re: Force Delivery Failure

2009-12-18 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: > I notice from time to time by checking my mail queue that messages get > stuck there because users send to an invalid or non existing domain. > My Postfix server attempts to hold the message in queue for later > delivery assuming the remote

Force Delivery Failure

2009-12-18 Thread Carlos Williams
I notice from time to time by checking my mail queue that messages get stuck there because users send to an invalid or non existing domain. My Postfix server attempts to hold the message in queue for later delivery assuming the remote server could be experiencing issues right his moment. My questio