On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:50:00PM +0100, Guy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a number of messages sitting in the deferred queue because the
> user's maildir is overquota. Maildrop allows double the user's paid for
> quota so if they've used up that much space I'm happy to immediately bounce
> messages to the overquota account at that point. I could do this by
> installing the VDA patch and doing some funky sql queries to use virtual
> (which can bounce on overquota with the patch) when the user has used up the
> full maildrop quota and use maildrop when the account is under quota.
>
> That said, I'd like to avoid using the patch as I've been quite happy using
> the Ubuntu postfix package up to this point. I was thinking about a script
> that checks the queue every few hours and forces overquota deferred messages
> to bounce immediately, but I'm not sure if that's possible. Postsuper
> doesn't appear to have the capability.
> Does anyone know of a way to force the bounce of a deferred message (based
> on queueid or perhaps some other more elegant way of achieving this?
You can update the transport table with a per-user entry:
u...@example.com error:5.2.2 Mailbox full
(and then don't forget to delete this when the user goes under quota).
--
Viktor.
