From: Aaron Roberts (aarondomicilium.com)
Date: Tue Apr 13 2004 - 09:42:53 CDT

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werner.amoncase.co.at wrote:
>> Your server should not be generating a bounce here, in this case it
>> is the responsibility of the remote SMTP client. Your server is
>> issuing a temporary reject code (450), so the remote server will
>> requeue the email, or generate a bounce if it has exceeded it's
>> retry limit.
>
>> Aaron
>
> You will tell me, that my mailserver tries a week to deliver a mail
> to an nonexistent account? Sorry thats sounds stupid to me.
>

You have soft_bounce = yes in your configuration. Which tells Postfix to
give temporary reject codes instead of permanent reject codes. If you told
Postfix to give a permanent reject code, it would give one, then the SMTP
client trying to send to your Postfix server would be expected to bounce the
message immediately.

Aaron

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