Hi Timo,
sorry for the delay, but many thanks for your answer (I was busy with the current Exim release).
Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> (So 21 Feb 2016 02:57:55 CET): …
Right.. RCPT TO in proxy answers immediately when it has verified that the user exists. It doesn't wait until it has connected to the backend and sent RCPT TO there. I'm also not entirely sure how good of an idea that is if it would, since at least without pipelining it would slow down all the LMTP operations when there are multiple recipients. But then again, if pipelining is used it wouldn't matter, at least in theory. It would require some more coding though.
The way it's commonly done in larger environments is that the over-quota is already checked by the MTA and have it fail the RCPT TO. You can have Dovecot update the over-quota flags via quota-warning scripts (and quota_over_script) in whatever way and have the MTA look that up. Then in Dovecot LMTP you could simply disable quota checks.
Yes, that's the way we've to go now. But getting as much as possible information about the deliverability of a message by standard means would be good. And using the RCPT TO response would not need any magic mechanisms on the MTA side. We could use recipient verification via callouts (as we do to check the existence of the recipient, w/o the need to do some LDAP lookups).
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