Fwd: Re: Stop mail from bouncing

[antietorrey at yahoo.com (Howard)]

Hi,

I'm having this same issue in AIX v5.1.  And, the uesr account
is a working account.  Any tips would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Antoinette



--- David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:05:46 -0400
> From: David Kramer <david at thekramers.net>
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: Stop mail from bouncing
> 
> Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > We have a problem at work where our slapd LDAP daemon has
> been going  
> > down repeatedly. When this happens, our SMTP daemon (postfix
> on  another 
> > machine) starts bouncing messages because it can't look up 
> and verify 
> > account names. Is there a way to configure postfix to not 
> bounce, but 
> > send 'try again later' or something else, when it can't 
> connect to the 
> > ldap server?
> > 
> > Isn't there a way postfix can tell the difference between
> 'no  account' 
> > and 'account verification mechanism unavailable'?
> > 
> > We recently split the ldap and mail servers onto two
> separate boxes  to 
> > make them more reliable, but this seems to have only caused
> more  
> > problems. Should I be mirroring the ldap config on the mail
> server?
> > 
> > Of course, stopping slapd from crashing is my first
> priority, but  this 
> > hard dependancy between the two is a real problem. I know
> there  is an 
> > option to configure postfix to accept mail for all
> addresses,  even ones 
> > that it isn't aware of, but I'd rather not resort to that, 
> then nothing 
> > will ever bounce.
> > 
> > -Josh
> 
> in main,cf:
> 
> # The unknown_local_recipient_reject_code specifies the SMTP
> server
> # response code when a recipient domain matches $mydestination
> or
> # $inet_interfaces, while $local_recipient_maps is non-empty
> and the
> # recipient address or address local-part is not found.
> #
> # The default setting is 550 (reject mail) but it is safer to
> start
> # with 450 (try again later) until you are certain that your
> # local_recipient_maps settings are OK.
> #
> #unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
> unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450
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Peace,

Antoinette

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