Postfix

Changes for a new install on Debian:
/etc/postfix
touch relay-domains
touch virtual
touch virtual-domains
touch transport
#This is the list of domains we will transport mail for over smtp, using different protocols.
# This is a hashfile, so postmap transport after editing.
apt-get install popa3
# get rid of the postfix pop daemon

Check configuration
postconf -n

/etc/postfix/virtual
# In order to translate any mailbox address from one domain to a mapped user on another domain add the following entries:

# account1@olddomain.ext account1
# account2@olddomain.ext account2
# newdomain.ext DOMAIN
# @newdomain.ext @olddomain.ext

# this will ensure that account1@olddomain.ext AND account1@newdomain.ext is delivered to account1 and account2@[newdomain or olddomain].ext goes to account2

# After changing this file run
# postmap virtual

Catchalls are set up with
@domain.ext	userid

/etc/postfix/virtual-domains
# This file contains the domains for which postfix will accept email
# It's not a hash file, so no need to run postmap on it.

To accept messages in the mailqueue and defer them untill the primary MX server is up again,
add the domain.ext to /etc/postfix/relay-domains and in transport add
domain.ext	etrn-only:

The mail will then be delivered when sendmail -q is sent, or when telnet mailserver 25, 
helo originating.domain
etrn defermaildomain.ext

mails get defered - you can see them in mailq
also in /var/spool/postfix/flush/

(see also
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-February/112246.html
http://www.postfix.org/ETRN_README.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2001-07/0730.html)

postfix reload reloads the config

http://wiki.ev-15.com/debian:mail_system for how to set up squirrelmail and cyrus for IMAP with postfix

You can also force the queue delivery by running

postqueue -f

or deliver a specific message by

postsuper -r queue_id

You can see the structure of the queues by using

qshape

you can see the active / incoming / deferred / hold queues by doing

qshape deferred

you may have to wait a bit for the output though.

To kill all deferred messages in the queue you can use

postsuper -d ALL deferred

An example from http://sysop.com.cn/document/Postfix.The.Definitive.Guide/0596002122_postfix-chp-5-sect-2.html

Example 5-1. Perl script to delete queued messages by email address

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# pfdel - deletes message containing specified address from
# Postfix queue. Matches either sender or recipient address.
#
# Usage: pfdel <email_address>
#

use strict;

# Change these paths if necessary.
my $LISTQ = "/usr/sbin/postqueue -p";
my $POSTSUPER = "/usr/sbin/postsuper";

my $email_addr = "";
my $qid = "";
my $euid = $>;

if ( @ARGV !=  1 ) {
        die "Usage: pfdel <email_address>\n";
} else {
        $email_addr = $ARGV[0];
}

if ( $euid != 0 ) {
        die "You must be root to delete queue files.\n";
}


open(QUEUE, "$LISTQ |") || 
  die "Can't get pipe to $LISTQ: $!\n";

my $entry = <QUEUE>;    # skip single header line
$/ = "";                # Rest of queue entries print on
                        # multiple lines.
while ( $entry = <QUEUE> ) {
        if ( $entry =~ / $email_addr$/m ) {
                ($qid) = split(/\s+/, $entry, 2);
                $qid =~ s/[\*\!]//;
                next unless ($qid);

                #
                # Execute postsuper -d with the queue id.
                # postsuper provides feedback when it deletes
                # messages. Let its output go through.
                #
                if ( system($POSTSUPER, "-d", $qid) != 0 ) {
                        # If postsuper has a problem, bail.
                        die "Error executing $POSTSUPER: error " .
                           "code " .  ($?/256) . "\n";
                }
        }
}
close(QUEUE);

if (! $qid ) {
        die "No messages with the address <$email_addr> " .
          "found in queue.\n";
}

exit 0;

Postgrey is a greylister that rejects email from a server on the first try, using the fact that most spammers do not retry to send their email, whereas almost all normal mail servers do.