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From: wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema)
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Subject: Re: Any best practices for stacking filters?
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:39:58 -0400 (EDT)
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Quanah Gibson-Mount:
> --On Monday, October 22, 2012 4:23 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
> <qua...@zimbra.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> >> There is, and there will not be, a queue between the Postfix SMTP
> >> server protocol engine and the Postfix Milter client protocol engine,
> >> where email messages wait until a broken Milter server comes back.
> 
> By the way, as long as Amavis isn't involved, I can get Postfix to queue 
> mail if the milter is down just fine, by setting things up as a content 
> filter that fronts the milter.

There is, however, no milter_default_action ON THE SMTP SERVER SIDE
that accepts mail and keeps it queued until the milter comes back.
That's what you objected to, and that's what will never exist.

	Wietse