[Dovecot] Posfix and Dovecot (dovecot like LDA) and no space left on the disk

Andrzej Adam Filip anfi at onet.eu
Tue May 10 21:32:21 EEST 2011


Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 10.5.2011, at 15.44, Petr Svacina wrote:
>
>> May  8 06:00:36 mailserver dovecot: deliver(sazima at vendys.net): msgid=<3DEF56667E754F24B163C9767422C9A9 at dlllk.local>: save failed to INBOX: Not enough disk space
>> May  8 06:00:36 mailserver dovecot: deliver(sazima at vendys.net): msgid=<3DEF56667E754F24B163C9767422C9A9 at dlllk.local>: rejected: Not enough disk space
>
> Oh, it's a rejection.. I guess it's because it's handled the same way
> as "out of quota". Two things you can do:
>
> a) give -e parameter to deliver, so it exits with the proper code
> instead of sending a new "rejected" message via sendmail. (I think I
> should have made this the default in v2.0.. Maybe I could change it in
> v2.1.)
>
> b) quota_full_tempfail = yes to have it exit with tempfail rather than
> a permanent failure

Do you intent any time soon to provide some hook to alow MTA reject
in reply to "RCPT TO:" (in SMTP session) messages to over quota
mailboxes?

Exit code of "deliver -e" can only be used to reject message in reply to
"the final dot" *for single recipient messages*.

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