[Dovecot] Dovecot discards mail over quota

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Gary V wrote:

> Then a bounce is created stating the mail was rejected:
>
> Your message to <test at example.com> was automatically rejected:
> Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full).
>
> Question: is it possible (without changing code) to alter this to
> where deliver would instead tempfail or something. Somehow it seems
> wrong to me to tell the MTA that everything is good, and then silently
> discard messages - regardless of the fact dovecot creates a bounce.
> This is not necessarily ideal either, but I _am_ wondering if this is
> configurable or not.

a) deliver -e

b) quota_full_tempfail=yes

c) a+b