--On Friday, August 17, 2012 3:16 PM -0700 "Murray S. Kucherawy"
<msk_at_blackops.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> Ok, "temp fail". Which to the client means their mail is REJECTED and
>> not accepted for delivery. Same difference. Either way, it does not
>> end up queued until the milter is back in service.
>
> I'm confused. If postfix tries to talk to a dead milter, what does it do
> if not a temp-fail?
Postfix sends the client sending the email a temp-fail, which then sends an
error back up to the end user that their mail was not accepted for
delivery. If the email client itself doesn't have a queuing mechanism
(mine does thankfully), then they essentially have to throw their email
away, or keep trying to send it until the milter is back in service.
> And then if opendkim were SMTP-aware and postfix couldn't talk to it,
> wouldn't it queue and retry later?
Right... instead of sending the client a temp fail. Not that it matters
now, since I have a working alternative. :)
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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Received on Fri Aug 17 2012 - 22:22:55 PST