Shane Williams wrote:
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Rick Macdougall wrote:
What I mean is servers that 250 OK an email message, then later on try
to resend the message to a forged sender because ... user is over quota
Now I'm confused. Are you saying that running sendmail with procmail
as the LDA is a Bad Thing? As I understand it, it does exactly what
you're describing when a user is over quota (but I admit my
understanding might be flawed). Either way, do you have
recommendations on how to get sendmail to check quota before accepting
mail? Some milter, perhaps? (I did a little googling but haven't
come up with anything yet)
Good question. I moved away from / am moving away from sendmail for a
variety of reasons and that is one of them. I found adding a -t switch
to the procmail delivery made it retry instead of bouncing but then you
end up getting those 4 hour retry messages bouncing back.
IMHO, bouncing an over quota email is not a good thing but it is less of
a bad thing than bouncing unknown users.
Rick
