Bounce on Postfix Pipe Command Execution Failure

2016-02-19 Thread Reid Sutherland
Hi, Why does Postfix bounce on command execution failure, or on command timeout? This isn't a situation for a hard failure, please clarify the reasoning. From postfix-2.11.7/src/global/pipe_command.c:672 } else if (write_status && write_errno != EPIPE) { vstring_prepend

Re: Bounce on Postfix Pipe Command Execution Failure

2016-02-19 Thread Reid Sutherland
Wietse Venema wrote: Reid Sutherland: Hi, Why does Postfix bounce on command execution failure, The action depends on the command exit status. If you want Postfix to retry, return the appropriate status. Not fair, here was our problem: Final-Recipient: rfc822; r...@vianet.ca Original

Re: Bounce on Postfix Pipe Command Execution Failure

2016-02-19 Thread Reid Sutherland
Wietse Venema wrote: I don't think that it is a good idea to fill up your machine with programs that keep timing out again and again and again. Postfix is not only about performance and security, but also about safety (mail servers should be able to deal with problems and not require a human baby

Re: postfix 3.3.0 and vda quota patch

2018-05-16 Thread Reid Sutherland
Roberto Sebastiano wrote: > Hello, > > it seems that "postfix vda" patch that brings quota support for virtual > maildirs is not updated / not mantained anymore. There is no patch for > 3.3.0 > http://vda.sourceforge.net/ > > I used that patch to create a custom mailserver on ubuntu 10.04 and > 1