Hi Wietse,

>> Would it technically possible to have a smtpd_to_lmtp_proxy option
>> (or however it could be called), that would receive on smtpd and
>> open a connection to its LMTP server, doing cleanup and Co. in
>> memory and wait for the result of the LMTP server? If the LMTP
> 
> This does not scale. The problem is that you find out if a recipient
> is over quota AFTER Postfix has already allocated the maximum amount
> of mail server resources.
> 
> The scalable way is to make the quota check BEFORE allocating more
> mail server resources. As has been suggested many times over the
> past 13 years, this means using an SMTPD access map or policy daemon
> to block mail for over-quota recipients.


Ok, I can understand that. Thank you very much for this feedback.

Kind regards

-Christian Rößner

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