Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Remy Lambert
I'm a Postfix n00b, so I may be asking a loaded question...but here goes: Recently, a user of mine sent an email to an incorrect address - he garbled the domain name. It took six days for our mail server to decide that it was undeliverable... Basically, the (incorrect) domain name actually

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Remy Lambert: I'm a Postfix n00b, so I may be asking a loaded question...but here goes: Recently, a user of mine sent an email to an incorrect address - he garbled the domain name. It took six days for our mail server to decide that it was undeliverable... [snip] Indeed, the mail system

RE: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Remy Lambert
users Subject: Re: Deferred queue settings? Remy Lambert: I'm a Postfix n00b, so I may be asking a loaded question...but here goes: Recently, a user of mine sent an email to an incorrect address - he garbled the domain name. It took six days for our mail server to decide

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Wietse Venema
...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Wietse Venema Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:49 AM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Deferred queue settings? Remy Lambert: I'm a Postfix n00b, so I may be asking a loaded question...but here goes: Recently, a user of mine sent an email to an incorrect

RE: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Remy Lambert
] On Behalf Of Wietse Venema Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:20 AM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Deferred queue settings? Remy Lambert: Awesome, this is what I needed - thanks! I see that what ended up happening in my case is the bounce_queue_lifetime default maximum of 432000 seconds (5

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 9/2/2009, Remy Lambert (rlamb...@healthforcepartners.com) wrote: Regarding the error counts, I see what you're getting at - when taking into consideration how often a message can be retried over any given span of time, it makes error count pretty irrelevant. I suppose if I want the message

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 02:04:12PM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: On 9/2/2009, Remy Lambert (rlamb...@healthforcepartners.com) wrote: Regarding the error counts, I see what you're getting at - when taking into consideration how often a message can be retried over any given span of time, it

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 9/2/2009, Victor Duchovni (victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com) wrote: A bit too soon, given typical grey-listing minimum retry timers. I would not send delay notices sooner than an hour after a message has been queued. FWIW, I use a 2 hour delay warning. Hmmm... I just realized why we

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread LuKreme
On 2-Sep-2009, at 11:09, Remy Lambert wrote: I come from the land of MS Exchange so, although I'm competent I'm not sure one is allowed to use MS Exchange and competent in the same sentence without a negation. Only half kidding :) -- A marriage is always made up of two people who are

RE: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Remy Lambert
for pointing this out! -Rem -Original Message- From: Charles Marcus [mailto:cmar...@media-brokers.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:04 AM To: Remy Lambert Cc: 'Postfix users' Subject: Re: Deferred queue settings? On 9/2/2009, Remy Lambert (rlamb...@healthforcepartners.com) wrote

Re: Deferred queue settings?

2009-09-02 Thread Wietse Venema
LuKreme: On 2-Sep-2009, at 11:09, Remy Lambert wrote: I come from the land of MS Exchange so, although I'm competent I'm not sure one is allowed to use MS Exchange and competent in the same sentence without a negation. Only half kidding :) LuKreme, stick to the technical topic,