On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:34:23PM -0800, Harold Paulson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I have a number of messages in my deferred queue that are destined for an > offsite alias, which is currently unreachable. I have changed the alias to > point to a local mailbox so the mail can be retrieved by the owner. New > messages sent to this alias are delivered as expected to this new mailbox. > > However, if I 'postsuper -r <queueid>' one of the deferred messages, it is > re-queued to go to the old offsite destination. I was expecting it to > re-resolve the alias, and send the message to the new mailbox. > postsuper(1) says that when I re-queue a message with the -r option: > > The message is subjected again to mail address rewriting > and substitution. This is useful when rewriting rules or > virtual mappings have changed. > > Obviously I am doing something wrong here. How can I re-queue these > deferred messages so they are sent to the new destination instead of the > old one?
It is again subjected to rewriting, but the input to the rewrite is the output of the previous rewrites. -- Viktor. Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: <mailto:majord...@postfix.org?body=unsubscribe%20postfix-users> If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.