On mailbox full, retry for 4 days or similar instead of reject

Narcis Garcia debianlists at actiu.net
Tue Feb 8 09:17:11 UTC 2022


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El 8/2/22 a les 10:02, dc-ml at dvl.werbittewas.de ha escrit:
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> Am 07.02.22 um 23:41 schrieb Jorge Bastos:
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>> I want postfix not to discard the message imediatly when a mailbox is
>> full, i mean when postfix tries to deliver it to dovecot lmtp.
>> Is it possible to change the behavior to something like what postfix
>> does when he tries to deliver a message to an external server and the
>> server is unaccessible for 4 days (the default i guess), and if in that
>> period discard it.
> 
> if you set "quota_full_tempfail" to "yes" in dovecots lda.conf, it
> should answer with a temporary failure-code 422 instead of permanent
> 522. (at least the code of lmtp_local_rcpt_reply_overquota() says so)
> 
> as lmtp is similar to smtp, postfix or any other MTA should honor this
> and keep the message in queue until the temporary failure goeas away or
> the queue-timeout (in Postfix!) is reached.
> 
> d.
> 

Thank you. I'll try this.


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