From: Terry Carmen
To: postfix users list
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:23:42 PM
Subject: Re: Defer All INET
> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 12:42 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> # /etc/postfix/deferall.r
Victor Duchovni:
> > If they send a fax will it get answered? No.
>
> Postfix does not "answer" mail, it delivers it. The fax will get
> delivered, unless you also turn off your fax machines at night.
I think that the original question has long been answered (turning
on/off inbound email deliver
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:16:51PM +0100, EASY
steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk wrote:
> But it still does *not* mean there is anyone in the office to answer any
> legitimate mail - come back later when we are open. It's simple enough.
That has nothing to do with MTAs. MTAs accept and deliver m
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:42:36 -0400, Victor Duchovni
wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 01:13:21PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
>
>>> # /etc/postfix/deferall.regexp
>>> /^/ DEFER Please try again during business hours
>>
>> The sender may get a better error message if you change the above to
>> /^/ DE
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 14:42 -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 01:13:21PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
>
> >> # /etc/postfix/deferall.regexp
> >> /^/ DEFER Please try again during business hours
> >
> > The sender may get a better error message if you change the above to
> > /^/
On 6/18/2009, Steve (steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk) wrote:
> That said, the IP tables idea is much better.
Not from what you've said. Why not just shut the entire server OFF...
power it down.
But, I agree with everyone else... this is just plain silliness, a waste
of time, energy, and will, i
On Tors, Juni 18, 2009 07:48, Steve wrote:
> It's an odd request to be able to 'offline' with a defer so I won't be
> surprised if I can't do it, but I would be Cindy Ecstacy Ecstatic if I
> could.
google postfwd, one of the problems you like to solve comes handy there :)
--
xpoint
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 01:13:21PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
>> # /etc/postfix/deferall.regexp
>> /^/ DEFER Please try again during business hours
>
> The sender may get a better error message if you change the above to
> /^/ DEFER 4.3.2 Please try again during business hours
>
> The 4.3.2 sugges
Noel Jones wrote:
Steve wrote:
Hi List,
What is the quickest, easiest (and scriptable) way to have Postfix defer
everything with a 4xx error. It's an extension to my 'after midnight'
tests. Not allowing any connections is fine, but I would prefer to
reject with a custom 4xx message such as "GO
From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On
Behalf Of Steve [steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:43 AM
To: Terry Carmen
Cc: postfix users list
Subject: Re: Defer All INET
I would tend to use a company myself who told me that they valued thei
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 13:23 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote:
>
> Even if I was a local customer, the concept of "email only works when the
> lights are on" would make me look somewhere else.
That is your prerogative and I respect that. It depends on what your
core business is and how desperate you are I
in the last evening/am.
From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On
Behalf Of Steve [steve.h...@digitalcertainty.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:35 AM
To: postfix users list
Subject: Re: Defer All INET
On Thu, 2009-
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 11:23 -0500, Larry Stone wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Steve wrote:
>
> > I'm not so sure it's nonsense. Look at it this way if the office is
> > closed there is nobody there to deal with email. So it's pointless to
> > accept it.
>
> How about so that it is there when the o
> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 12:42 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> # /etc/postfix/deferall.regexp
>> >> /^/ DEFER Please try again during business hours
>> >>
>>
>> You might want to do a little log exploration and see if 100% of everything
you receive after hours is spam
>>
>> Not all m
>>
>>
>> # /etc/postfix/deferall.regexp
>> /^/ DEFER Please try again during business hours
>>
You might want to do a little log exploration and see if 100% of everything
you receive after hours is spam
Not all mail received after hours is spam. Quite a bit is automated (package
tracking, machin
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Steve wrote:
I'm not so sure it's nonsense. Look at it this way if the office is
closed there is nobody there to deal with email. So it's pointless to
accept it.
How about so that it is there when the office does reopen?
But it's also pointless to defer it since most mail
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 10:07 -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > What is the quickest, easiest (and scriptable) way to have Postfix
> defer
> > everything with a 4xx error. It's an extension to my 'after
> midnight'
> > tests. Not allowing any connections is fine, but I wou
Steve wrote:
Hi List,
What is the quickest, easiest (and scriptable) way to have Postfix defer
everything with a 4xx error. It's an extension to my 'after midnight'
tests. Not allowing any connections is fine, but I would prefer to
reject with a custom 4xx message such as "GO AWAY - IT'S AFTER M
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