[Dovecot] Sendmail and deliver LDA exits with EX_TEMPFAIL on overquota

[Timo Sirainen]

On Oct 17, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Sotiris Tsimbonis wrote:

> When I send an email to this account, sendmail accepts the email and  
> tries to deliver it. Deliver fails to save in INBOX and returns an  
> error, but the email stays in sendmail's queue..
>
> Any suggestions on how to avoid this and produce a 5xx error for  
> overquota users before accepting the email would be greatly  
> appreciated..

That should be the default. "quota_full_tempfail" setting controls it,  
do you have it commented out in the config file? (unfortunately lda  
section isn't listed with dovecot -n)

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