Yes, I've seen this too. I can almost guarantee that the user on the
remote server has exceeded their storage allocation. They've probably
received a message from the server telling them they should delete some
mail.
Incidentally, in RFC 821, that is the exact text for error 552. Hotmail
et. al. tend to rewrite it otherwise ... so it might be a sendmail site or
something.
"Aaron L. Meehan" wrote:
> Quoting Ismal Hisham Darus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I don't know where the problem is .. but in my my case, we have two
> > qmail servers server0 and server1 (not using inetd.. of course :)).
> > When somebody send files exceeding 2.5mb, he get a bouce mail stating
> > that :
> >
> > Remote host said: 552 Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage
> > allocation.
>
> Anyway, as others stated, that message isn't output by qmail. I
> _have_ seen that particular annoying message before: it's output by
> hotmail.com's mail servers when you send an email to someone there
> that has exceeded their mail quota.
>
> The quota is quite small at hotmail and other free mail providers, and
> they outright *bounce* mail when it's exceeded.
