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

[Timo Sirainen]

On 31.5.2013, at 16.44, Larry Rosenman <larryrtx at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Sure, error logging would work as it does now.

> I.E. permissions, etc.

Permission error isn't actually a temporary failure. In that situation the mail would be delivered to INBOX. A temporary error is only something that really should fix itself by waiting/retrying, without the user or sysadmin having to do anything specific to that user.

> 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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