Richard Bewley wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a way to have postfix accept incomming messages, > process them, and queue them for delivery without actually delivering them > to the mail server? The reason I ask is, at time when it is necessary to > do maintenence on the mail server, or take it down for any reason, it would > be nice for postfix to accept the incoming messages and hold them until we > are ready to "release" them to the mail server. Is this possible?
I think it is the default. If the Imail server isn't up, postfix should defer delivery until it is or until maximal_queue_lifetime is reached. Also see http://www.postfix.org/rate.html#postponing for forcing deferring all mail until explicity asked to deliver. > > One thought I came up with, which isn't a very good solution, is to change > transport.map so that the next mail server it sends to is 127.0.0.1, but I > don't think this is a very good solution... > I'd agree ;-) -- Chris Scott Host Orlando, Inc. http://www.hostorlando.com/
