--On 6 December 2006 09:40:31 +0000 Chris Lightfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > `Over quota' is no more a permanent error than `disk full' > or `load average too high'. It's certainly true that (a) > the error condition could persist indefinitely, and (b) if > it persists for too long the failing message should be > returned to its sender, but that's a decision for the > sender, not the recipient. > So, how about this for a hypothetical scenario. Exim doesn't know about over quota mailboxes until it comes to delivery. Therefore, over quota messages stick on my inbound mail queue, generating warning messages and eventually bounces, all of which might well be spam blowback. That bit is true. Therefore I might like to create a daily script which checks for users who have more than 20 inbound messages on the queue. For these, if their INBOX is over quota, and hasn't been changed for 21 days, the script configures exim to issue a 550 over quota error. You don't like that? How about if I make it a thousand messages, and 180 days? -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
