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Subject: Re: Vanishing mail?
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 19:44:13 CST

Matthew Hawkins:
> On 2000-03-02 16:10:44 +0100, Thomas Andres wrote:
> > I think it's a really nice feature to use during configuration changes. I
> > just hope nobody uses it and forget's to disable it once everything is
> > running and then start wondering why so many mails are in the queue and
> > don't get bounced... :)
>
> If you commented it out again and restarted postfix, would the messages
> bounce when the queue flushed again? Or would you have to delete them
> by hand?

With soft_bounce, Postfix defers rather than bouncing.

Without soft_bounce, Postfix bounces.

        Wietse