On Monday 13 June 2005 22:24, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > When a message fails with a temporary deferral code -- in this case it's > because the mailbox is full -- Courier stops accepting any more mail to the > mailbox. After all, it makes no sense to accept more mail for a full > mailbox. >
I would object in this situation, somehow. In my case event sequence was this: (0. maildir with 10 MB quota created and activated to accept mail) 1. 5.5 MB mail delivered 2. 4.51 MB mail rejected, remains in queue 3. first mail (5.5 MB) read, removed from mailbox 4. no mail accepted It seems slightly illogical to me for mailbox with 4.5 MB free to reject message of size 700 - 1200 bytes. Small mail could be delivered even in this situation. 5. some time after, message from queue gets delivered, other messages are being delivered as well, subject to retry intervals > Emptying the mailbox does not automatically clear the block. After all, > the delivery problem can have another reason. Once the message in the mail > queue gets succesfully delivered to the mailbox, the block is cleared and > mail will continue to be accepted again. > > So, essentially, once a full mailbox is emptied mail delivery does not > resume immediately, but only after the last message in the queue gets > succesfully redelivered. It is impractical to recompute the quota on every > attempt to accept mail from an external source. > Which quota do you mean? In maildirsize? This one got recomputed when mailbox was read and emptied. > There's also a failsafe timeout of two hours, in case someone does > something silly, like remove the last message stuck in the mail queue. > > This is not the end of the world. If someone lets their mailbox pile up > until it's full, it'll take a little while for things to get moving again. > OK, I agree. With upper limit of two hours, it is acceptable in real life. Sending server takes care of retrying. In courier's case, it just works. Tested in real life :) > There's also a command to manually clear the block, but I'm not going to > tell you what it is. It's documented in the manual pages. You should've > read the documentation, which explains all of this. Do you mean courier clear? Yes, I did read full documentation, more than once, but not everything came into my memory. Maybe some formal change could make it a bit more readable/memorable, however I am not in position to tell how. After all, I can find almost anything necessary :) Thanks for explanation. Continue your great work, please. Regards, Milan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
