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

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 08/02/2022 09:09 Narcis Garcia <debianlists at actiu.net> wrote:
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> +1
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> Narcis Garcia
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> I'm using this dedicated address because personal addresses aren't 
> masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator 
> should fix this against automated addresses collectors.
> El 7/2/22 a les 23:41, Jorge Bastos ha escrit:
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Thanks in advanced,
> > Jorge
> > 

Hi!

LMTP has no queueing mechanism, so the retry should be done with Postfix. Maybe ask in the postfix list how to make it treat LMTP quota/disk full as temporary error? 

Aki