OT: Postfix pre-MailScanner Policy Daemon

Drew Marshall drew at THEMARSHALLS.CO.UK
Wed Jul 6 09:40:05 IST 2005


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On Wed, July 6, 2005 1:36, Peter Russell said:
>> Agreed and every MTA should reject non users at SMTP stage (But not all
>> do!). Where this isn't possible, I also drop non-deliverable
>> Mailer-Daemon messages after a much shorter queue period. No point
>> clogging the queue up.
>
> How do you do this in postfix?

bounce_queue_lifetime =

I set mine to 2d as opposed to the normal queue lifetime of 5d. If you set
it to 0 then the bounce message will be attempted only once before being
removed from the queue.

Drew


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