On 22 Apr 2021, at 12:49, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > rud...@padaru.de: >> Good evening, >> Unfortunately, I have to revisit my topic from back in the day.... >> >> Sending the proper reject-messages through the postfix works wonderfully, as >> long as it is an external sender. >> >> But now if a local sender sends an email to the full mailbox, again the >> Dovecot replies, or the program what generates the message mentioned at the >> beginning: >> >> ## >> Your message to <localu...@my.server.com> was automatically discarded: >> ## > > Why discard over-quota email? If you allow Dovecot to reject delivery, > then the local sender will receive a proper delivery status notification.
Also, discarding email that you accepted is evil. IMO, off course, but I would immediately stop using an mail address in which email that was delivered was deleted by the service. In fact, I have. Either you accept the message and deliver it or you reject the message, anything else is unacceptable. -- Do you have any idea how expensive wool is in Transylvania? Because of the euro.
