Quota Config With Prefetch Creating Alias Directories

Kevin N. kevin at notscheduled.eu
Sun Jun 27 11:01:27 EEST 2021


On a second thought, the previous suggestion doesn't seem to be what you 
are looking for. It looks like it only performs selective quota checking.

Sorry.


On 27/06/2021 10:45, Kevin N. wrote:
> For the first part of the issue maybe you could use Postfix's 
> smtpd_restriction_classes combined with Dovecot's quota_grace, as 
> described in this older thread:
> https://dovecot.markmail.org/thread/5sa563icpv2os2nb#query:+page:1+mid:gkhwgzfvipzaixtl+state:results 
> 
> 
> I haven't tried it though.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> On 27/06/2021 05:32, dovecot at ptld.com wrote:
>>> On 06-26-2021 7:39 pm, dovecot at ptld.com wrote:
>>>
>>> First question: Is this the best way to configure dovecot using quota
>>> verification for postfix to work will aliases?
>>>
>>> Second question: How can i prevent directories and indexes being
>>> created for non found user (aliases) accounts?
>>
>> I figured out i was doing it wrong, i removed the "result_failure = 
>> return-ok" and used "quota_status_nouser = DUNNO" instead. However, 
>> now i have another concern.
>>
>> * I setup an email account for user at example.com
>> * I setup an alias alias at example.com to forward to user at example.com
>> * I filled up user at example.com inbox so it would fail quota.
>> * I sent an email to alias at example.com
>>
>> Postfix did not reject the email, it accepted it and tried to deliver 
>> to dovecot/lmtp which then rejected the message for being over quota. 
>> This caused postfix to have to send a back splatter bounce email. 
>> Anyway to solve that?
>>
>> But worse, the bounce email exposed the forwarded to address of 
>> user at example.com saying mailbox full.
>> "<user at example.com> (expanded from <alias at example.com>)"
>>
>> What can be done about that? Keep the bounce notice from exposing the 
>> forward to address? Or is there still a better way to set this up?


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