Thanks Russell,
We have a hacked version of getpw which gets the home
based on a hash function. All maildirs are owned
by mailq. So it seems that an exit of 111 will tell
qmail-lspawn/local to queue it up for later, right?
Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> Michael Boyiazis writes:
> > I was wondering what I might do to queue up mail coming in
> > for users with id's beginning w/ say b or q while
> > maintenance (planned or unplanned) was done on the
> > storage that holds their email.
>
> The answer depends very highly on how you associate their email
> address with their storage. If it's done through the standard
> qmail-getpw, which checks /etc/passwd, that code checks to see if the
> user owns their own homedir. If the homedir is inaccessible, you're
> hosed; the mail bounces. If it's done through a replacement
> qmail-getpw, then you could simply have the replacement code exit with
> 111 if their storage was being worked on.
>
> > 2) Broken Microsoft SMTP servers which begin to chatter when
> > given a 451 (for stray line feeds).
>
> Don't worry about that, because the mail has already been accepted,
> and is sitting in the queue.
>
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