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

[Timo Sirainen]

On 31.5.2013, at 16.52, Birta Levente <blevi.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31/05/2013 16:41, Timo Sirainen 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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> What about configurable save_to_inbox_if_tmperror = yes / no ?

I'll add that if someone can tell me a good reason why they would ever want to set it to "yes". I try to avoid adding settings that nobody uses.