On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 04:56:06PM +0200, Frédéric Massot wrote:
> Josip Rodin a écrit :
> >On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 07:15:23PM +0200, Frederic MASSOT wrote:
> >>When mailbox quotas are reached, the behaviour of maildrop is normally
> >>return a permanent error (EX_NOPERM).
> >>
> >>Your patch "004-maildrop-permanent-err.patch" change this behavior and
> >>maildrop returns a temporary error (EX_TEMPFAIL), without allowing the
> >>administrator to choose.
> >>
> >>Can you add an option to the command line to allow the administrator to
> >>choose between a permanent or temporary error?
> >
> >Well, if you read the patch more closely, you'll see that our behaviour
> >matches the behaviour of the upstream maildrop when used with Courier.
> >We simply avoided giving the "Permission denied" error in the standalone
> >case as well.
> >
> >The reasoning for that is described at http://bugs.debian.org/265399
> >
> >I wouldn't be opposed to making this configurable offhand, but I would
> >appreciate it if you could explain why you prefer the other behaviour.
>
> Hi,
>
> On another server we also use Postfix without Maildrop and with
> filesystem quotas, when a sender sending an mail he knows immediately if
> the recipient's mailbox is full.
>
> With Postfix, Maildrop and quotas managed by the Maildrop, the mail rest
> for 5 days in the queue before the sender is notified. Finally, one
> people called the other on the phone to find out if he received his
> mail. One is sure to have sent his mail, the other is sure to have
> neither received nor have deleted. They call me on the phone and I
> explain that this mailbox is full and he needs do the household in his
> mailbox.
>
> Secondly, the queue exceed several hundred of MB, it load the system for
> nothing.
>
> I think it is better to leave the choice of behaviour of Maildrop to the
> administrator.
I conferred with the author, and he proposed a workaround: you can wrap
the delivery to the quota-bound maildir in the relevant .mailfilter file
like this:
exception {
to "./Maildir"
}
EXITCODE=77
exit
How does that work for you?
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