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

[Frank Behrens]

Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote on 20 Oct 2008 11:46:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Sotiris Tsimbonis wrote:
> 
> > But how do we move the rejection at smtp level using sendmail+dovecot lda?
> 
> When a recipient is valid, the mail is queued locally, then the delivery 
> attempt is made. That means that the SMTP dialogue has been closed 
> already, before the MDA is invoked. sendmail has quite a strict separation 
> between MTA and MDA, or to put it in other words it supports only the 
> basic Unix-style /var/mail/system_user mboxes natively.

I'm not sure how sendmail handles delivery via LMTP. _May be_ this 
can improve the situation. Of course, dovecot's deliver must support 
it.

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