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NAME
bounce - Postfix delivery status reports
SYNOPSIS
bounce [generic Postfix daemon options]
DESCRIPTION
The bounce(8) daemon maintains per-message log files with delivery sta-
tus information. Each log file is named after the queue file that it
corresponds to, and is kept in a queue subdirectory named after the ser-
vice name in the master.cf file (either bounce, defer or trace). This
program expects to be run from the master(8) process manager.
The bounce(8) daemon processes two types of service requests:
• Append a recipient (non-)delivery status record to a per-message
log file.
• Enqueue a delivery status notification message, with a copy of a
per-message log file and of the corresponding message. When the
delivery status notification message is enqueued successfully,
the per-message log file is deleted.
The software does a best notification effort. A non-delivery notifica-
tion is sent even when the log file or the original message cannot be
read.
Optionally, a bounce (defer, trace) client can request that the per-mes-
sage log file be deleted when the requested operation fails. This is
used by clients that cannot retry transactions by themselves, and that
depend on retry logic in their own client.
STANDARDS
RFC 822 (ARPA Internet Text Messages)
RFC 2045 (Format of Internet Message Bodies)
RFC 2822 (Internet Message Format)
RFC 3462 (Delivery Status Notifications)
RFC 3464 (Delivery Status Notifications)
RFC 3834 (Auto-Submitted: message header)
RFC 5322 (Internet Message Format)
RFC 6531 (Internationalized SMTP)
RFC 6532 (Internationalized Message Format)
RFC 6533 (Internationalized Delivery Status Notifications)
DIAGNOSTICS
Problems and transactions are logged to syslogd(8) or postlogd(8).
CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
Changes to main.cf are picked up automatically, as bounce(8) processes
run for only a limited amount of time. Use the command "postfix reload"
to speed up a change.
The text below provides only a parameter summary. See postconf(5) for
more details including examples.
2bounce_notice_recipient (postmaster)
The recipient of undeliverable mail that cannot be returned to
the sender.
backwards_bounce_logfile_compatibility (yes)
Produce additional bounce(8) logfile records that can be read by
Postfix versions before 2.0.
bounce_notice_recipient (postmaster)
The recipient of postmaster notifications with the message head-
ers of mail that Postfix did not deliver and of SMTP conversation
transcripts of mail that Postfix did not receive.
bounce_size_limit (50000)
The maximal amount of original message text that is sent in a
non-delivery notification.
bounce_template_file (empty)
Pathname of a configuration file with bounce message templates.
config_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)
The default location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf config-
uration files.
daemon_timeout (18000s)
How much time a Postfix daemon process may take to handle a re-
quest before it is terminated by a built-in watchdog timer.
delay_notice_recipient (postmaster)
The recipient of postmaster notifications with the message head-
ers of mail that cannot be delivered within $delay_warning_time
time units.
deliver_lock_attempts (20)
The maximal number of attempts to acquire an exclusive lock on a
mailbox file or bounce(8) logfile.
deliver_lock_delay (1s)
The time between attempts to acquire an exclusive lock on a mail-
box file or bounce(8) logfile.
ipc_timeout (3600s)
The time limit for sending or receiving information over an in-
ternal communication channel.
internal_mail_filter_classes (empty)
What categories of Postfix-generated mail are subject to be-
fore-queue content inspection by non_smtpd_milters, header_checks
and body_checks.
mail_name (Postfix)
The mail system name that is displayed in Received: headers, in
the SMTP greeting banner, and in bounced mail.
max_idle (100s)
The maximum amount of time that an idle Postfix daemon process
waits for an incoming connection before terminating voluntarily.
max_use (100)
The maximal number of incoming connections that a Postfix daemon
process will service before terminating voluntarily.
notify_classes (resource, software)
The list of error classes that are reported to the postmaster.
process_id (read-only)
The process ID of a Postfix command or daemon process.
process_name (read-only)
The process name of a Postfix command or daemon process.
queue_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)
The location of the Postfix top-level queue directory.
syslog_facility (mail)
The syslog facility of Postfix logging.
syslog_name (see 'postconf -d' output)
A prefix that is prepended to the process name in syslog records,
so that, for example, "smtpd" becomes "prefix/smtpd".
Available in Postfix 3.0 and later:
smtputf8_autodetect_classes (sendmail, verify)
Detect that a message requires SMTPUTF8 support for the specified
mail origin classes.
Available in Postfix 3.3 and later:
service_name (read-only)
The master.cf service name of a Postfix daemon process.
Available in Postfix 3.6 and later:
enable_threaded_bounces (no)
Enable non-delivery, success, and delay notifications that link
to the original message by including a References: and In-Re-
ply-To: header with the original Message-ID value.
Available in Postfix 3.7 and later:
header_from_format (standard)
The format of the Postfix-generated From: header.
Available in Postfix 3.10 and later:
tls_required_enable (yes)
Enable support for the "TLS-Required: no" message header, defined
in RFC 8689.
FILES
/var/spool/postfix/bounce/* non-delivery records
/var/spool/postfix/defer/* non-delivery records
/var/spool/postfix/trace/* delivery status records
SEE ALSO
bounce(5), bounce message template format
qmgr(8), queue manager
postconf(5), configuration parameters
master(5), generic daemon options
master(8), process manager
postlogd(8), Postfix logging
syslogd(8), system logging
LICENSE
The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.
AUTHOR(S)
Wietse Venema
IBM T.J. Watson Research
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
Wietse Venema
Google, Inc.
111 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10011, USA
Wietse Venema
porcupine.org
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