Custom quota exeed message

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Wed Feb 3 09:00:20 EET 2021


> On 02/02/2021 11:29 rudolf at padaru.de wrote:
> 
> 
> Hey there,
> 
> i need some help with custom quota messages with dovecot and postfix.
> 
> The quota setup is clear and easy, now i want to manipulate the exceed message, which is generated, if the mailbox is full.
> 
> Now i got something like that
> 
> Your message to <user at my.server.com> was automatically discarded:
> Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)
> 
> The first line – so i think – is generated from postfix and cant be edit or? The second line is generatet from dovecot and i can manipulate there with the „quota_exceeded_message“ variable.
> 
> My problem is, that the sender cant see the mail-adress where he originally send the mail. Because the ‚user‘ is an local user on my server. I need somethin like that:
> 
> 
> Your message to <peter.schmidt at schmidt.com> was automatically discarded:
> Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)
> 
> 
> Is there an way to manipulate the first line of answer?
> 
> Ori s there an way, that i can run a custom script in the „quota_exceeded_message“ var? With the latter variant i would be able to create something like:
> 
> Your message to <user at my.server.com> was automatically discarded:
> Quota exceeded (mailbox for user <peter.schmidt at schmidt.com> is full)
> 
> 
> But configurations like „quota_exceeded_message = script /my/script.sh“ wont execute the script.
> 
> Does anybody have an idea?
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Yours sincerely
> Pascal Rudolf

Script is not supported, sorry. It is a static message which is read at startup.

Aki


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