Re: "hold" queues and ETRN

Subject: Re: "hold" queues and ETRN
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 18:18:47 CST

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Cor Bosman:
> We made our own hack for this. We authenticate users with radius. If the
> authentication works, we look up the user in a table of users who have this
> service of 'hold queues'. If the user is in it, we fire a radius packet with
> the username and queuename to another daemon (we call it radmaild).
>
> This radmaild daemon then basically starts a queue run for this specific site.
>
> Works like a charm, for hundreds, if not thousands of queues. Shouldnt be so
> hard to implement at your own site.

Consider me interested. How does the mail enter the hold queue, and
how does delivery relate to the rest of Postfix (so that bounces
work as one would expect).

        Wietse

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