Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-19 Thread Noel Jones
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:44:25PM -0900, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 17:50:14 Noel Jones wrote: > > > A policy server won't really help here. > > OP should read up on the "at" command. > > Yes it will. At/cron still means the php app needs to queue, then it gets > pass

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-19 Thread Wietse Venema
Noel Jones: > A policy server won't really help here. > OP should read up on the "at" command. Agreed. Postfix is not a batch queue system. Both cron and at already provide delayed execution including error reporting. Wietse

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:32:53 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > I won't make any claims as to the correctness or efficiency of this > approach, but one way that I've seen this done is to store a record in > the database immediately, and then have a (cron) PHP script running > every 5 minutes or

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 17:45:20 Sahil Tandon wrote: > My point was to implement the delay based on the OP's criteria *outside* of > Postfix. Whether this is done in the same application the OP mentioned or > another one (say, a policy service as you mention below) is an interesting > discu

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread Noel Jones
> --- Original Message --- > From: Melvyn Sopacua > To: postfix-users@postfix.org, je...@speakeasy.net > Sent: 18-Feb-09, 20:35:59 > Subject: Re: delay all outbound mail > > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:56:05 jeffs wrote: > > Sahil Tandon wrote: > > &

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:56:05 jeffs wrote: > > Sahil Tandon wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, jeffs wrote: > > >> Thank you for your prompt reply. > > > > > > No problem, but please do not top-post; place all future replies *below* > > > quoted

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:56:05 jeffs wrote: > Sahil Tandon wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, jeffs wrote: > >> Thank you for your prompt reply. > > > > No problem, but please do not top-post; place all future replies *below* > > quoted text. Thanks. > > > >> I am working on a project in whic

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread jeffs
Sahil Tandon wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, jeffs wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, jeffs wrote: Thank you for your prompt reply. No problem, but please do not top-post; place all future replies *below* quoted text. Thanks. I am working on a project in which -- depending

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread jeffs
Sahil Tandon wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, jeffs wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, jeffs wrote: Thank you for your prompt reply. No problem, but please do not top-post; place all future replies *below* quoted text. Thanks. I am working on a project in which -- depending

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, jeffs wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, jeffs wrote: >> >>> Thank you for your prompt reply. >> >> No problem, but please do not top-post; place all future replies *below* >> quoted text. Thanks. >> >>> I am working on a project in which -- depending on the level of the >>

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread jeffs
Sahil Tandon wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, jeffs wrote: Thank you for your prompt reply. No problem, but please do not top-post; place all future replies *below* quoted text. Thanks. I am working on a project in which -- depending on the level of the users subscription -- either

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, jeffs wrote: > Thank you for your prompt reply. No problem, but please do not top-post; place all future replies *below* quoted text. Thanks. > I am working on a project in which -- depending on the level of the > users subscription -- either their mail is delayed for at

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread jeffs
Thank you for your prompt reply. I have a postfix smtp server which connects directly to the internet and does not relay mail through an ISP. I am working on a project in which -- depending on the level of the users subscription -- either their mail is delayed for at least 2 hours or it is s

Re: delay all outbound mail

2009-02-18 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, jeffs wrote: > I need to delay all outbound email, not specific to destination domains. > I have tried to make the smtp_destination_rate_delay = 180 This increases the delay that is inserted between individual deliveries to the same destination via the smtp(8) delivery agen