Postfix hold

[George Papamichelakis]

Also I don't understand the term short | long postfix queue ? I google 
the term

but I can't find any info regarding that

MSMail Queue Type = short | long


what is this for ?

George



On 2/3/21 1:19 PM, Shawn Iverson via MailScanner wrote:
>
>> I already tried that,  it works but in the logs I see that a milter 
>> discard action is triggered but the mails are delivered.
>>
> Discard is by design. This is to simultaneously queue the message for 
> MailScanner instead of passing it forward in the postfix pipeline.
>
>
>> Then some users reported that it brakes outgoing mails , no headers 
>> almost , everything converted to plain text etc. Unfortunately I this 
>> is on alive machine
>> That was working with postfix/mailscanner for more than ten years now.
>> I was forced to stop using mailscanner as the hold portion of the 
>> system was used to flood the machine with backscatter messages, the 
>> only way to stop it was this
>> and add rules in the header_checks file (and body).
>>
> I have never heard of this behavior. The milter has no code to strip 
> headers or manipulate the message itself.
>
>
>> The previous setup was working ok but I don't want to risk getting 
>> into the same situation again.
>>
>> George
>>
>>
>>
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