[Dovecot] LDA: handling non-existent mail dirs

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Dec 9 22:11:20 EET 2009


On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:25 +0100, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> We have users existing in LDAP but not supposed to receive mail.
> We used to handle that (somewhat ungracefully) by simply not creating the top mail directory for those accounts.
> Since switching to Dovecots LDA, these non-existing dirs are considered temporary failures and so the junk mails pile up in postfix' queue
> 
> Would it be possible for deliver to optionally treat this as a permanent error?

You can patch the code, but I think adding an extra option just for that
won't benefit much more other people than you..

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