Re: best practices for workstations that occasionally disconnect

2009-06-25 Thread Noel Jones
William Yardley wrote: I was thinking that setting $defer_transports might avoid $maximal_queue_lifetime, but from my tests, looks like that's not the case. What about holding the messages? Same thing? Messages on hold never expire (postfix ignores messages in the hold queue). When they are r

Re: best practices for workstations that occasionally disconnect

2009-06-24 Thread William Yardley
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:39:15PM -0700, William Yardley wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:25:41AM -0500, Noel Jones wrote: > Maybe setting $bounce_queue_lifetime to 0 but leaving > $maximal_queue_lifetime set to 5d+ would do the trick? [The main issue with this approach is that it will get ri

Re: best practices for workstations that occasionally disconnect

2009-06-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:25:41AM -0500, Noel Jones wrote: > The best practice for "occasional" fairly brief (less than a couple days) > outages is just ignore them. Postfix should handle things pretty well up > to several thousand deferred messages. If you're expecting tens of > thousands o

Re: best practices for workstations that occasionally disconnect

2009-06-24 Thread Noel Jones
William Yardley wrote: I'm just wondering if anyone has a good suggestion for how to deal with workstations, setup with a $relayhost for all outbound mail, which occasionally get unplugged from the network or otherwise taken offline. While this doesn't happen to our machines a lot, it does cause

best practices for workstations that occasionally disconnect

2009-06-24 Thread William Yardley
I'm just wondering if anyone has a good suggestion for how to deal with workstations, setup with a $relayhost for all outbound mail, which occasionally get unplugged from the network or otherwise taken offline. While this doesn't happen to our machines a lot, it does cause some annoyance when a mac