Ralf Hildebrandt:
> * Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebra...@charite.de>:
> > Goal:
> > =====
> >
> > Make mails go to a target server within 60s.
> > Target server is defined as either:
> >
> > * the MX host of the destination domain
> > * my smtp_fallback_relay which keeps trying delivery
> > It's really fast and can take a lot of load...
>
> So it's ok to try the primary systems for a while, but close to the end
> of the 60s period, I'd like Postfix to "give up" and just give the mail
> to the smtp_fallback_relay (which can be assumed to accept the mail
> within 0.1s)
You need to find out what your failure modes are. If these failure
modes can be expressed in terms of time limits (something does not
happen soon enough), then use that. If the failure modes are not
expressible as time limits (something depends on concurrency or
message size) use something else.
Wietse
