Re: safe way to retire postfix gateway

2009-08-19 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Robert Lopez : Having built new email gateways, it is time to retire the old ones. I have removed one email gateway running postfix from the MX records for our college. It still has a few hundred mail in the queues and some spam is still coming in. What is the best way to stop the

Re: safe way to retire postfix gateway

2009-08-18 Thread mouss
Robert Lopez a écrit : > Having built new email gateways, it is time to retire the old ones. > > I have removed one email gateway running postfix from the MX records > for our college. > It still has a few hundred mail in the queues and some spam is still coming > in. > > What is the best way to

Re: safe way to retire postfix gateway

2009-08-18 Thread Blake Hudson
What about adding this to main.cf?: inet_interfaces = loopback-only I believe that that would work as well. Basically, the idea is to cut off outside access to postfix so that new messages don't get in the queue. Simultaneously, postfix is attempting to empty the queue as normal. Eventu

Re: safe way to retire postfix gateway

2009-08-18 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: safe way to retire postfix gateway From: Robert Lopez To: Postfix users Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:52:11 PM Having built new email gateways, it is time to retire the old ones. I have removed one email gateway running postfix from the MX

safe way to retire postfix gateway

2009-08-18 Thread Robert Lopez
Having built new email gateways, it is time to retire the old ones. I have removed one email gateway running postfix from the MX records for our college. It still has a few hundred mail in the queues and some spam is still coming in. What is the best way to stop the incoming email and allow the q