deliver -q won't ignore quotas

[Ken Murchison]

Robert Covell wrote:

> So the "IGNOREQUOTA" does not pertain to my situation?

No is doesn't.  IGNOREQUOTA is an LMTP keyword and you don't look like 
you're sending LMTP commands to deliver.

>  I am seeing the same
> that Jamie was, in that our system messages for over quota are getting
> bounced because they are over quota.  For example when our quota checker ran
> this morning we got:
> 
> 
> The original message was received at Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:00:05 -0500 (CDT)
> from localhost.rolet.com [127.0.0.1]
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <johns at xxxxxxxx.com>
>     (reason: 552 5.2.2 Over quota)
> 
> How would we address this situation using the "-q"?

deliver -q <user> works for me.


> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ken Murchison [mailto:ken at oceana.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 8:55 PM
>>To: Robert Covell
>>Cc: Jamie Davey; info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>>Subject: Re: deliver -q won't ignore quotas
>>
>>
>>Robert Covell wrote:
>>
>>
>>>We are doing something similar but opening deliver a bit
>>
>>different (with the
>>
>>>user name and -q).  Before we put this in production would the
>>
>>following be
>>
>>>correct (the previous open of deliver is commented out):
>>
>>No, the commented out version is correct.  The difference being that
>>Jamie is using the '-l' option which means that the client is speaking
>>LMTP directly (with deliver being a middle-man).  In your case, you're
>>just telling deliver what to do and it creates the LMTP session with the
>>appropriate commands/arguments.
>>
>>
>>
>>>//$MP = "/usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver -q $user";
>>>$MP = "/usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver $user IGNOREQUOTA";
>>>
>>>$fp = popen($MP,"w");
>>>fputs($fp, $toheader);
>>>fputs($fp, $fromheader);
>>>fputs($fp, $replytoheader);
>>>fputs($fp, $dateheader);
>>>fputs($fp, $subjectheader);
>>>fputs($fp, "$message");
>>>pclose($fp);
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Bob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>>>>[mailto:owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Ken Murchison
>>>>Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:17 PM
>>>>To: Jamie Davey
>>>>Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>>>>Subject: Re: deliver -q won't ignore quotas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Jamie Davey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi all
>>>>>
>>>>>I am trying to get a script (derived from the archives of this list)
>>>>>running that will deliver a warning mail to users who are in danger of
>>>>>breaching / have breached their mailbox quota. The script
>>>>
>>>>determines the
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>users affected by running the quota command and then tries to send them
>>>>>a mail using deliver with the -q directive to deliver regardless of
>>>>>their quota usage. It works fine for users who are approaching their
>>>>>full quota but not for those currently over it.
>>>>>
>>>>>I have run the script without the deliver portion and manually sent the
>>>>>mails, again using "deliver -q -l"  and get a "452 4.2.2 Over quota"
>>>>>error which disregards the recipient. Is this a bug with
>>>>
>>>>deliver or am I
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>doing something wrong
>>>>
>>>>If you're going to speak LMTP directly (-l option), then no other
>>>>options apply and you need to add the IGNOREQUOTA protocol element
>>>>yourself (see below).  Actually, if you're writing your own LMTP client,
>>>>then talk to lmtpd directly instead of using deliver as a pass-through
>>>>proxy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>># Warning messages
>>>>>if (@warn) {
>>>>>  open(DELIVER, "| $deliverprog -q -l");
>>>>>  print DELIVER "MAIL FROM:<postmaster\@nqe.com>\n";
>>>>>  foreach $warnuser (@warn) {
>>>>>      print DELIVER "RCPT TO:<$warnuser>\n";
>>>>
>>>>This should be "RCPT TO:<$warnuser> IGNOREQUOTA\n"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  };
>>>>>  print DELIVER "DATA\n";
>>>>>  print DELIVER <<EOF;
>>>>
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