Hi there,

I'm quite new to Dovecot, but already can tell that it is a really great work, congrats to the developers!

But I'm having a little problem and couldn't figure it out how to solve.

First, let me talk about my setup:

I'm running Debian 5 (Lenny) with it's default Dovecot (common, pop3 and imap) packages (version 1:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1), I really would like to keep it this way unless I haven't another option.

All authentication is made through a MS Active Directory and messages delivered to a virtual mailbox (/var/vmail/<domain>/<mailbox>), using Postfix as SMTP, that uses procmail (just for filtering the messages, not to deliver) that calls Dovecot's deliver like this:

-- :0 w | $DELIVER -d $RECIPIENT -e

$DELIVER points to /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver and

$RECIPIENT is fed by Postfix in it's master.cf

All this work great.

Then I needed to enable quotas it's working as well.

Here is the section that show how I've set it up:

-- protocol lda { mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda mail_plugins = cmusieve quota

postmaster_address = postmaster@do.ma.in hostname = mybox.do.ma.in auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master quota_full_tempfail = no }

I also want to run some sieve scripts just to be able to do some auto-replies (i.e. Out of office), and also it works well.

Here is an example of a sieve I was using in some tests:

-- require ["fileinto", "vacation"];

if header :contains "X-DSPAM-Result" "Spam" { stop; }

vacation :days 1 :subject "Out of office reply" :addresses ["john.doe@do.ma.in", "jd@do.ma.in"] "I'm out of office, please contact Joan Doe instead. Best regards John Doe";

And as I said it works.

But when I send a message to this mailbox that could exceed it's quota I get this on my logs:

-- Mar 25 14:02:25 mybox postfix/pickup[21407]: 68D1DA82F: uid=103 from=<> Mar 25 14:02:25 mybox deliver(john.doe@do.ma.in): msgid=4BAB9728.6000601@other.do.ma.in: sent vacation response to faccenda@other.do.ma.in Mar 25 14:02:25 mybox postfix/cleanup[22119]: 68D1DA82F: message-id=dovecot-1269536545-332912-0@do.ma.in Mar 25 14:02:25 mybox postfix/qmgr[17299]: 68D1DA82F: from=<>, size=623, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 25 14:02:25 mybox deliver(john.doe@do.ma.in): msgid=4BAB9728.6000601@other.do.ma.in: save failed to INBOX: Quota exceeded Mar 25 14:02:25 mybox deliver(john.doe@do.ma.in): sieve runtime error: Keep: Generic Error Mar 25 14:02:25 mybox deliver(john.doe@do.ma.in): sieve_execute_bytecode(/var/vmail/do.ma.in/john.doe/.dovecot.sievec) failed Mar 25 14:02:25 mybox deliver(john.doe@do.ma.in): msgid=4BAB9728.6000601@do.ma.in: Rejected: Quota exceeded Mar 25 14:02:25 mybox postfix/pipe[22086]: 7C666A825: to=john.doe@do.ma.in, relay=procmail, delay=1.1, delays=0.39/0/0/0.68, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure)

And every time the server tries again to deliver that message it re-sends the auto-reply.

Is it an undesirable behavior, isn't it? Does anyone knows how to address it?

Also, I thought that that configuration (using the -e parameter to deliver) and the "quota_full_tempfail = yes" would make give an permanent error, not trying to deliver that message again. What is wrong about it?

Thanks in advance,