>The idea is that you ***QUEUE*** the mail for the mailbox server >on the gateway. The default postfix maximal_queue_lifetime setting >of five days should be sufficient to survive a weekend outage of >the mailbox server.
This is what I normally do during maint. >> If I roll back the mailbox server during this period, delivering >> mail back into it would be most convenient. > >You mis-understand. Not quite:) > >1) If you don't ***QUEUE*** the mail on the gateway, there is >nothing to replay, because the mail is already delivered to the >mailbox server. > >2) If you do ***QUEUE*** the mail on the gateway, then all you need >to do is turn on the flow to the mailbox server when you're done, >and Postfix will deliver it to the mailbox server. hence why I wanted to duplicate the delivery queue (or whatever queue would be involved) and redirect a *copy* into a new queue that holds/defers. When I am done, I can suspend incoming mail temporarily at the firewall, drop the mb server, then reconfigure the queues and deliver. I would simply defer all weekend as I have done for years, but this time around my need came too quick to implement more orthodox methods and I need to interact with several recipients mail in the meantime. Thanks for all the help so far guys! jlc
