[Dovecot] Sendmail and deliver LDA exits with EX_TEMPFAIL on overquota

Sotiris Tsimbonis tsimbonis at forthnet.gr
Sun Oct 19 23:24:38 EEST 2008


mouss wrote, On 10/19/2008 12:50 PM:
> Charles Marcus a écrit :
>> On 10/18/2008 3:04 PM, Sotiris Tsimbonis wrote:
>>> deliver(stsimb.t157.forthnet.gr): Oct 18 21:56:30 Info:
>>> msgid=<200810181856.m9IIu6rc005273 at mx-mstr-07.forthnet.gr>: save failed
>>> to INBOX: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)
>>> deliver(stsimb.t157.forthnet.gr): Oct 18 21:56:30 Info:
>>> msgid=<200810181856.m9IIu6rc005273 at mx-mstr-07.forthnet.gr>: rejected:
>>> Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)
>>> deliver(stsimb.t157.forthnet.gr): Oct 18 21:56:30 Info: Sending a
>>> rejection to stsimb.t157.forthnet.gr: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user
>>> is full)
>> I'm by no means sure, but this looks like you are BOUNCING a message due
>> to over quota AFTER having already ACCEPTED it... can you confirm/deny this?
>>
> 
> yes he does. I hope he has a good spam filter! sending bounces to forged
> senders isn't a good practice...

I confirm, that the above config does produce bounces (possibly forged 
i.e. backscatter) and it's bad ..

But how do we move the rejection at smtp level using sendmail+dovecot lda?

Sot.


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