[Dovecot] Dovecot discards mail over quota

[Gary V]

On 1/17/09, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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
>

Thank you,  this helped to point me to the pertinent pages in the Wiki.

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Gary V