Il giorno mar, 10/04/2012 alle 16.18 +0200, Reindl Harald ha scritto: > > Am 10.04.2012 16:00, schrieb Leandro: > > Hello, > > I noticed that when the SMTP daemon is trying to deliver a message to > > dbmail lmtpd and the mailbox is full, lmtpd answers with a > > > > 522 Recipient <*****> Permanent Failure Mailbox Status Mailbox full > > > > Unfortunately, using exim (but maybe with other MTA), the message is > > discarded, immediately. > > > > Maybe it can be more correct to have lmtpd answers with just a 422 > > (Quota Exceeded) because the mailbox full is not a "permanent" > > condition: if the user delete some message, the message can be > > delivered. It will be very useful to have exim retry later to deliver > > the message. > > not really > > you do not want delivery-tries the whole day for the same messages > if it would be a 4xx postfix/exim would accept the message and > try over and over to deliver > > the hard-bounce informs the sender that the mailbox is full > and this way completly ignorant users take notice in the > one or another form and you do not queue messages for > completly orphaned accounts > > this is normally not a big problem, only few users are > having quota exceeded (repeatly) and the sense of the > quota is to control disk-usage, this does not work if > you still accept messages and queue them on your disk > for days >
You are right, having postfix or exim try delivering the message multiple times is not nice. However is even not nice to have to say to a collegue his messages are completely lost if he miss (or ignore) the alert email on quota almost reached. Our old system will store overquota emails for just 72 hours (the freeze time of exim) before discarding. This way the user can get his "last 72 hours of emails" when he starts deleting his old messages freeing the mailbox. Having dbmail-lmtpd answers with a 422 will let each of us to decide on postfix/exim configuration how to handle overquota emails, how many hours of days to queue them and when to throw them away. Leandro Leandro _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list DBmail@dbmail.org http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
