On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:31:00 +0200 Christian Schmidt christian@siebenbergen.de wrote:
Hello Marshal,
Marshal Newrock, 18.09.2006 (d.m.y):
The mailboxes will be on another machine, accessed over NFS. I want to use the LDA for quota support, especially as it looks like it will update the usage in the database.
Well, I would use the MTA's quota features as the MTA can handle quota problems at SMTP time. Otherwise your MTA has accepted a message and passes it to the LDA. When the recipient's account is over quota, what will yiur server do with this mail? When already the MTA checks if the account is over quota, the sender gets a 4xx "Error", your server has no need to deal with a bounce, and the sender is well-informed.
Exactly. Postfix smtpd doesn't handle delivery to the mailbox, so it wouldn't be able to check quotas before accepting mail. However, with the quota information stored in a database, postfix would be able to check and reject mail for users who are over quota.
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