On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:10:40AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > I was working on upgrading a mail server last night. To stop email delivery I > just turned off postfix's smtpd entry. I think this was a mistake, I'm not > seeing any email retires from 6-12pm. Did I make a booboo? If so it only > affected me and my wife, and I would definitely have learned from my > mistake... > > In trying to not lose email I think I lost email... > > For future reference it looks like you can set postfix to just return a 4xx > code on all mail with a transport map entry in main.cf. but somehow I > thought smtp would retry on connection refused. >
In general, stopping an smtpd process is fine. If you have a secondary MX, that's where mail will go. If you don't, all reputable senders will retry, and if you are down longer than their retry cycle, will send a message back to the originator. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't fight for freedom by taking away rights. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
