On our Postfix gateway we're using a policy query to our backend dovecot server to check if the mail would fit into the mailbox.
Recently I noticed that the hu-berlin.de Mailserver keeps retrying in spite of a 522 error: May 1 05:32:36 mail postfix/smtpd[5185]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ir2.cms.hu-berlin.de[141.20.1.148]: 552 5.2.2 <marietta.xx...@charite.de>: Recipient address rejected: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full); from=<xxxxx...@cms.hu-berlin.de> to=<marietta.xx...@charite.de> proto=ESMTP helo=<ir2.cms.hu-berlin.de> May 1 06:32:38 mail postfix/smtpd[17803]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ir2.cms.hu-berlin.de[141.20.1.148]: 552 5.2.2 <marietta.xx...@charite.de>: Recipient address rejected: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full); from=<xxxxx...@cms.hu-berlin.de> to=<marietta.xx...@charite.de> proto=ESMTP helo=<ir2.cms.hu-berlin.de> Their postmaster checked the logs and found this: Tue Apr 30 20:05:04 2013 Info: Delivery start DCID 4678286 MID 15335505 to RID [0] Tue Apr 30 20:05:06 2013 Info: Delayed: DCID 4678286 MID 15335505 to RID 0 - 4.1.0 - Unknown address error ('552', ['5.2.2 <marietta.xx...@charite.de>: Recipient address rejected: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)', '5.2.2 Contact your postmaster/admin for technical assistance. Or send a fax to: +49 (0)30 450 7570600 In any case: Please provide the following information in your problem report: This error message, time (Apr 30 20:05:06), client (141.20.1.148) and server (mail.charite.de).']) [] Tue Apr 30 20:05:06 2013 Info: MID 15335505 to RID [0] pending till Tue Apr 30 20:06:06 2013 [Default] "4.1.0 - Unknown address error" -- anybody seen that before? Maybe a multiline-reply-problem? I just tried a little something: 220 mail.charite.de ESMTP EHLO foo.bar 250-mail.charite.de 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 36700160 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN MAIL FROM:<t...@toastbrot.de.invalid> 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO:<anne.xx...@charite.de> 552-5.2.2 <anne.xxx...@charite.de>: Recipient address rejected: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) 552 5.2.2 Contact your postmaster/admin for technical assistance. Or send a fax to: +49 (0)30 450 7570600 In any case: Please provide the following information in your problem report: This error message, time (May 03 10:14:52), client (127.0.0.1) and server (mail.charite.de). QUIT 221 2.0.0 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. That looks fairly OK. -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein