shooting from the hip I would say stop listening on the network connection and only listen to localhost
In the /etc/postfix/master.cf file change the line smtp... to 127.0.0.1:smtp ... thus forcing it to listen to localhost only. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Truth Seeker [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Stop accepting mails from clients but process the mails which is already in the queue??? Dear Pros, how can i stop accepting mails on postfix server from all my clients but at the same time, i want to postfix to complete the tasks in the queue. For eg; if i want to do some maintenance work on the system, i want to first stop accepting mails in my mails server from the clients. Then i want to wait for the server to complete the processing in the queue (which he is already accepted, then after that i want to shutdown the postfix service completely inorder to carry out my maintenance task - -- --- Always try to find truth!!!
