[Dovecot] Running just part of dovecot

Christian Schmidt christian at siebenbergen.de
Mon Sep 18 11:31:00 EEST 2006


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.

Regards,
Christian Schmidt

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