Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Ian Jackson (ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk) wrote:
> > Stephen Frost writes ("Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time"):
> > > Then bounce it locally. Duh. No reason to force master to deal with
> > > the bounce messages you feel are 'right' to send.
> >
> > I don't bounce it. I reject it at SMTP time with a 4xx or 5xx code.
>
> Congradulations! You've found the problem!
"*THE*" problem?
*THE* problem is related to master's MTA configuration, handling and
administration, and not in anything else that gives it extra work to do.
Bouncing crap to master is *a* problem, because one should not be bouncing
back stuff to middle-of-the-way MTAs that are known in one's setup, and
master certainly qualifies.
Since we are talking about it, it is not always trivial to special-case an
incoming connection for a local bounce instead of a SMTP-level bounce,
though. At least not with all MTAs.
I can do so with postfix because I have a two-layer setup anyway (mail gets
twice through the system, for content filtering with extremely high input
rate. I just tell the first instance to let master through, and the second
one to reject -- this causes a *local* bounce, as mail is already queued and
accepted). I am not even sure if it can be done [in postfix] in a single
layer setup (smtpd->queues->MDA). Anyone would know how to do it?
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