On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 04:04:59PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Either your Postfix source is modified, miscompiled, the binaries are > > corrupted, or CPU is mal-functioning. > > Or he is running a Postfix version before 2.6. > > Citing the access(5) manpage: > > DEFER optional text... > Reject the address etc. that matches the pattern. Reply with > "$access_map_defer_code optional text..." when the optional text > is specified, otherwise reply with a generic error response mes- > sage. > > This feature is available in Postfix 2.6 and later.
Oops, I thought this was older. He reported running 2.5.5, so that would explain the whole mess. In 2.5 "DEFER" is not an access(5) action and so falls through to generic_checks, with the reported symptoms. -- Viktor.