Defer email via LMTP when there is 'no space left on device' instead of rejecting it

[Reindl Harald]

Am 11.08.2014 um 22:44 schrieb Will Yardley:
> 3) In many cases, users aren't able to delete mail to get under their
> (hard) quota without having the quota raised temporarily. If their mail
> client deletes by copying messages into the trash, then purging, for
> example, I've seen cases where the only way for the user to trim down
> their usage is to temporarily increase the quota long enough for them to
> get their usage down

that is all fine and true but that don't change the fact that if
there is 'no space left on device' someone did not do his job
properly and a full disk happens all 10 years

do you really think that a mailservers job is to handle
that all 10 years happening mistake special? why?

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