queue/smtp-forward ---> Does it queue when forward server is down?

2008-01-15 Thread David Bouw
I installed qsmtpd last weekend to give it a try. I opted to install it on a different machine and used the queue/smtp-forward plugin to get it into the 'production' machine. I changed the MX records of some domain names which receive a lot of spam to the machine running qsmtpd. My question: W

Re: queue/smtp-forward ---> Does it queue when forward server is down?

2008-01-15 Thread Matt Sergeant
I think it sends a 4xx error back to the sender, which means they will queue it for resend at their end. I haven't tested this though. On 15-Jan-08, at 10:38 AM, David Bouw wrote: I installed qsmtpd last weekend to give it a try. I opted to install it on a different machine and used the queue

Re: queue/smtp-forward ---> Does it queue when forward server is down?

2008-01-15 Thread Hanno Hecker
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:38:44 +0100 "David Bouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed qsmtpd last weekend to give it a try. > I opted to install it on a different machine and used the queue/smtp-forward > plugin to get it into the 'production' machine. [...] > What happens when 'queue/smtp-for

Re: queue/smtp-forward ---> Does it queue when forward server isdown?

2008-01-15 Thread John Peacock
Hanno Hecker wrote: There's no real queueing mechanism with the smtp-forward plugin, the mail will be rejected with a temporary error, which means the mail will stay in the client's queue and sent later again... well at least for most MTAs. If you don't have any other queue plugin loaded, you a

Re: queue/smtp-forward ---> Does it queue when forward server is down?

2008-01-15 Thread Hanno Hecker
[Answer also to ML] On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:46 +0100 "David Bouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only thing that makes me curious is that the sender's mailer will have > to keep waiting for a response (code) till the mail has been completely > forwarded: [...] > Isn't there any risks of the

Re: queue/smtp-forward ---> Does it queue when forward server is down?

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Lewis
Hanno Hecker wrote: > [Answer also to ML] > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:46 +0100 > "David Bouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The only thing that makes me curious is that the sender's mailer will have >> to keep waiting for a response (code) till the mail has been completely >> forwarded: > [