For testing, I stopped amavisd and sent one message from yahoo. It
generates following error in my syslog

postfix/smtp[338]: [ID 197553 mail.info] connect to
127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: Connection refused

I then started amavisd but it didn't deliver the pending message.  After
that I ran postqueue -f to force the delivery of messages in the queue
and I receive that message along with several other 2 3 day old
messages.

Why amavisd didn't deliver those messages which were arrived while
amavisd was not running, can any one help on this?


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sven
Riedel
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [AMaViS-user] What will happen during failure of amavisd

Hi, 

> My question is that in case amavisd daemon stop
> running due to some reason, the Server will not be able receive new
> emails? Or postfix will keep receiving emails but with no scanning?

It depends on your setup. If you're using a pre-queueing content filter
you won't be able to receive mail until amavis is up and running again.
If you're using amavis as a post-queing content filter, you won't lose
any mail. It will all remain in the queue until amavis is running
again, or the queue lifetime runs out (in which case a bounce is 
sent back to the sender). The usual postfix queue lifetime is 5 days, 
so you're on the safe side there. 

If you've set up amavis according to the amavis postfix README, you'll
have a post-queueing content filter, which I'd recommend to use
anyway.

Regs,
Sven


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