On Thu, 01 Apr 2010, Daniel Cizinsky wrote:

> Although documentation is very clear about it following didn't work as
> expected:
> 1. I put a message, which wasn't able to go through to recipients on hold
> (it was sent on 17th March, on hold from about 18th) using postsuper -h ID.
> 2. Today I released the message using postsuper -H ID. I wanted it to be
> bounced back to the sender. But it was delivered (private data changed):
> 
> Apr  1 22:04:07 machine postfix/smtp[23964]: ID: to=<recip...@mail.com>,
> relay=mail.server.com[11.22.33.44]:25, delay=1339602,
> delays=1339519/0.01/2/81, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Mail 1234 queued
> for delivery)
> 
> I have explicitly (for sure) stated in main.cf:
> maximal_queue_lifetime = 5d
> 
> What's wrong? Is the queue lifetime valid only for locally delivered mail?

>From postsuper(1):

 Note: while mail is "on hold" it will not expire when its time in the
 queue exceeds the maximal_queue_lifetime or bounce_queue_lifetime
 setting.  It becomes subject to expiration after it is released from
 "hold".

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>

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