[HN Gopher] Delay email delivery with Postfix for a relaxing wee...
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       Delay email delivery with Postfix for a relaxing weekend
        
       Author : enrico204
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-04-22 12:56 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | Piskvorrr wrote:
       | E-mail is, at its core, best-effort, respond-maybe protocol.
       | Implementing "quiet hours as seen in IM", means using the wrong
       | tool.
       | 
       | If you insist on treating e-mail as a medium requiring immediate
       | response, you'll be going into Postfix on weekends to force-flush
       | the queue instead. This is not a technological problem,
       | definitely not one that's solvable through configuration
       | tweaking.
       | 
       | (I mean, sure, it's an impressive exercise in how flexible the sw
       | stack is, but the issue lies elsewhere)
        
         | enrico204 wrote:
         | Actually, my idea was to delay e-mails because I don't want to
         | read them during weekends, while I still want to read other
         | e-mails (e.g., newsletters, login alerts). I still open my
         | inbox once per day :-)
        
         | Quekid5 wrote:
         | > E-mail is, at its core, best-effort, [...]
         | 
         | If anyone expends as much effort at delivery (7 days, usually,
         | with spaced repetition) of anything these days, I'd be
         | seriously impressed.
         | 
         | > Implementing "quiet hours as seen in IM", means using the
         | wrong tool.
         | 
         | Modern MUAs can usually do this sort of thing, tbf.
         | 
         | AFAICT using the MTA is a great way to avoid "can't stop
         | looking syndrome"... I can't see the content of e-mails if all
         | I see is 'rejected email from xyz@foo.bar' in the logs. Ofc,
         | you need to reject them before they enter the queue -- that's
         | the point!
         | 
         | Anyway, I don't particularly begrudge anybody solving problems
         | in a way that works for them.
        
       | flyer_go wrote:
       | This would be really popular for sms, especially for mac
       | interface or iphone.
        
       | xorcist wrote:
       | This is a nice way to show what you can do with Postfix. But if
       | you actually wanted this functionality, it would be much less
       | error prone to implement this in your delivery agent rather than
       | your transfer agent. For example Procmail or Sieve or whatever
       | you use to filter incoming mail.
       | 
       | (An email system is normally in three parts, a transfer agent
       | that talks to remote systems such as Postfix, a delivery agent
       | that delivers to a local mailbox such as Sieve or Procmail, and a
       | user agent which is what you use to read your mail such as
       | Thunderbird or mutt.)
       | 
       | Just change your filter to change the delivery mailbox to a
       | separate one for weekends. That way you won't risk causing any
       | bounces if you do something wrong.
        
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