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I'm not shure about the wording. Maybe bouncing is the right word.

Problem is, that a local user did send a message to a non-existing domain. Now I expected that postfix will send the message back to the sender. Isn't this default behavior? And if not, what have I to do to get this working?

If someone's interesseted in my postfix configuration: Pastebin (because it's to large to post here).

The problem in simple steps:

  1. [email protected] sends a message via mail.mydomain.org to [email protected]
  2. Mail stays in postfix' mailqueue now for over 5 days.

My intention:

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Postfix is saving the message to try again later. You can use these parameters to change this behavior.

Be careful because remote servers using Greylisting may not accept messages if you haven't tried enough times or waited long enough.

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You'll want to set a positive time value for delay_warning_time.

e.g.: delay_warning_time = 90m

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The parameter you want to look at is bounce_queue_lifetime.

It seems that in your configuration it's set to 2 days, which is kind of low. Perhaps you changed it after this issue occurred? Or did you remember to reload Postfix after changing it?

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  • I set this down before posting this question but it doesn't affekt the messages in the queue. Two days later the problem where solved.
    – PascalTurbo
    Feb 22, 2013 at 13:38

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