[Dovecot] Posfix and Dovecot (dovecot like LDA) and no space left on the disk

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:37 +0200, Petr Svacina wrote:

> If my server is out of space (disk full) and  the postfix is LDA, the
> new messages a deffered or refused,so postfix send 450 to sender ... 
> But When I use dovecot (1.2.16) like LDA, postfix accept message (even
> there is no space), forward to dovecot, dovecot REFUSE the message and
> message is lost !

Dovecot deliver should fail with tempfail, which Postfix should notice
and forward to the original sender. If deliver doesn't return tempfail,
it's a bug. I'd like to see Postfix logs of when this problem happens.