On Wed December 14 2005 09:35, Daniel Higgins wrote: > in recent versions of courier, there is a "backscatter blacklist" for > local addresses with delivery errors. unfortunately, that feature > also bring in a deadlock in some conditions. > > consider this scenario: > local user1 has a 10 megs quota > someone send this user a 12 megs email, it gets accepted in the queue > for whatever reason, then delivered later > the account for user1 is now deadlocked until the 12 megs email > bounce, 6 days later > the failsafe timer of 2 hours doesn't help, because the email is > still in the queue.
No, it isn't, because the thoughtful, proactive sys. admin. has stopped delivery of individual messages even close to the size of user quota. > in previous versions, an overquota scenario was a permanent error > (5xx), that mail got bounced and that was it. > now it locks the account. > > it might not be a big deal for johnny and his 2 friends on their > private server, but for an enterprise that's another matter. > > any solution to this problem? or should i just turn off the > backscatter protection completly? Do you change your cars tires when the gas gauge is on "E"? ;-) jerry ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
