On mailbox full, retry for 4 days or similar instead of reject

Christian Kivalo ml+dovecot at valo.at
Tue Feb 8 06:54:08 UTC 2022



On February 7, 2022 11:41:08 PM GMT+01:00, Jorge Bastos <mysql.jorge at decimal.pt> wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>I don't know if this is dovecot specific and i guess it may not be at 
>100% so I ask for help.
>
>I want postfix not to discard the message imediatly when a mailbox is 
>full, i mean when postfix tries to deliver it to dovecot lmtp.
>Is it possible to change the behavior to something like what postfix 
>does when he tries to deliver a message to an external server and the 
>server is unaccessible for 4 days (the default i guess), and if in that 
>period discard it.
How do you signal postfix that the mailbox is full?
How much over quota do you want a mailbox to be allowed to go?
Whats your running config, please show doveconf -n
>Does this exists? At least i know gmail does something similar to this.
>
>I've tried to google a bit but didn't found info that could lead me to 
>this configuration.
Dovecot quota documentation can be found here https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/quota_plugin/
>Thanks in advanced,
>Jorge
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Christian Kivalo


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