Hold queue question

[Drew Marshall]

On 9 Sep 2006, at 09:36, Glenn Steen wrote:

> On 08/09/06, Green, Rodney <rgreen at trayerproducts.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using Postfix with MailScanner. Can someone tell me what would
>> happen if I were to release (using postsuper -H queueid) a message in
>> the hold queue?
>> Would that message bypass MailScanner?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rod
>>
> I haven't tested this Rod, but that is very likely what would happen,
> since you'd effectively move the message over to the deferred queue
> (which is the domain of the qmgr... and happens after MailScanner...).
> Why would you want to do that?

I'm not even sure the message would stay in the hold queue with out  
MailScanner picking it up and processing it. In a MailScanner  
installation, better to do your message 'holding' with the  
MailScanner quarantine via a ruleset.

Drew

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