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>