normally I just shut postfix down for things like that .. as long as you aren't offline for too long your backup MX should queue and/or the sender mail server..
Dave. On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Ben Leslie wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping someone can help me out with a small postfix problem. > > Currently I have postfix setup to deliver mail to users home > directories, which are on an NFS mounted directory. This works > fine. > > I'm upgrading the NFS server, which will require taking the NFS > mount offline for a while and copying the data over to a new disk. > > During this time I, obviously, want to avoid losing email. So I > would ideally like postfix to recieve emails, store it in a > queue in /var/spool, and then deliver it when I bring the new > NFS server online. > > Would I be correct in guessing that: > defer_transports = local > would do what I want? > > It seems right to me, but just seems way too easy, so I think > I might be missing something. > > Cheers, > > Benno > > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / [EMAIL PROTECTED] pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
