[Dovecot] LDA/LMTP - saving to INBOX fallback on tempfail?

[Larry Rosenman]

I think I like the temporary failure idea.  BUT, please make sure to log
all pertinent information to maillog so the admin/user can fix it if it's
not something that is automatically fixed.

I.E. permissions, etc.

Thanks!  Love dovecot btw.  works great in my setup
(FreeBSD/ZFS/mbox/LDA/Exim).



On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> Currently if saving to mailbox fails for any reason, the mail is saved to
> INBOX instead. Same if a Sieve redirect fails, the mail is saved to INBOX.
> I'm wondering if anyone actually prefers this behavior when the error is
> temporary? For example if some index file corruption was detected, the save
> will most likely succeed the next time it's attempted. Or if the redirect
> fails because the SMTP server can't be connected to at the moment. So I was
> thinking about changing v2.2 LDA/LMTP to simply return temporary failure
> instead of saving the mail to INBOX.
>
>


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