[rt-users] rt-mailgate

[Stef Morrell]

rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:03:22AM -0500, Steve Cochran wrote:
>> 
>> This might be more of a MTA question, but we're using rt-mailgate set
>> up in /etc/aliases with postfix. httpd stopped working on our RT
>> server, so obviously new mail couldn't be put into RT.
>> 
>> My question is would the mail queue up anywhere to be reprocessed? RT
>> is so robust that I can't image this hasn't been considered and dealt
>> with, just not sure of postfix or rt-mailgate would be the one
>> handling that.
> 
> RT Mailgate exits with a code telling postfix to hang onto
> the mail. The key to google on is 'TEMPFAIL'
> -j
> 

Following on from which, once fixed, look at using postqueue -s to
reattempt delivery immediately, rather than waiting for a retry.

Stef
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