> >>> The quick fix is, as I wrote in one of my earlier mails, to > >> configure > >>> svr1 not to tell svr4 to *retry delivery*, but to just junk > >> the mail > >>> right away. It'll still cause joe-job style problems, but > it won't > >>> load up the queue for days. > >> > >> But, from my look at the queue on svr4, this is already being done > >> ... the queue contains a bunch of MAILER-DAEMON bounces back for > >> 'recipient unknown', which is what is supposed to happen ... > > > > That's because I've deleted thousands of emails already, > and run the > > delete script once every hour or so in order to keep it living. > > (I bet your "mailq" command didn't take almost an hour - > that's what > > it did when I ran it this morning) > > > > Run something like: > > mailq | grep "Recipient address rejected" > > I thought that the above was supposed to be a perm error, not > temp? Does anyone know what I need to set in postfix on svr1 > to change it to a perm?
Yes, htat's what I sent before :-) c) Change svr1 parameters to: unknown_relay_recipient_reject_code = 550 and unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend