OOT - Postfix relay_domains and tranport

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Fri Jul 16 11:25:05 UTC 2004


On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Budi Febrianto wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   I have one RHL 8.0 server with postfix installed that will relay all
>   emails to domain xyz.com to internal mail server.
> 
>   Configuration:
>   in main.cf:
>   relay_domains =  $mydestination, xyz.com
> 
>   and in transport
>   xyz.com    smtp:internal.mailserver.com
> 
>   So far it works. I can receive all emails from outside in internal
>   mail server.
>   
>   My question is, if the connection between postfix server to internal
>   mail server is lost, will postfix keep the emails and resend it
>   again after the connection restored?
>   Or postfix will bounce the emails back as undelivery or else?

Postfix will hold the message and retry delivery to the internal server 
for up to 5 days.
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