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From: Phill Macey on 10 Aug 2010 09:31
On 10 August 2010 21:35, Wietse Venema <wietse(a)porcupine.org> wrote:

> When you have a many-recipient "all" alias, you need to set up an
> "owner-all" alias in the alias database (with the right-hand side
> being the adminstrator of the "all" list). Besides changing the
> way errors are reported, this also triggers a different delivery
> strategy where one slow recipient won't cause all deliveries to be
> deferred.

I was aware of the error reporting change that this triggers but not
of the different delivery strategy for slow recipients. Where can I
read about the delivery strategy behaviour? It didnt seem to be
mentioned in aliases(5) with the error reporting stuff.


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From: Wietse Venema on 10 Aug 2010 12:08
Phill Macey:
> On 10 August 2010 21:35, Wietse Venema <wietse(a)porcupine.org> wrote:
>
> > When you have a many-recipient "all" alias, you need to set up an
> > "owner-all" alias in the alias database (with the right-hand side
> > being the adminstrator of the "all" list). Besides changing the
> > way errors are reported, this also triggers a different delivery
> > strategy where one slow recipient won't cause all deliveries to be
> > deferred.
>
> I was aware of the error reporting change that this triggers but not
> of the different delivery strategy for slow recipients. Where can I
> read about the delivery strategy behaviour? It didnt seem to be
> mentioned in aliases(5) with the error reporting stuff.

It is a workaround.

Ideally, Postfix would figure this out for itself; people should
not have to jump such hoops. That said, after 10+ years it ought
to be documented.

Wietse

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