Sieve redirect with over quota mailbox

[Gary Mills]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 02:20:34PM +0100, Konrad Mauz wrote:
> 
> when a user has the following sieve script actived,
> mails to the user are stored in his local mailbox
> and forwarded to the external address.
> 
> redirect "myaddress at external.com";
> keep;
> 
> If the user is over quota, the mail is not delivered
> to his local mailbox ( OK ), but neither forwarded to
> the external addressi ( NOT OK ?!? ). Is this a bug or a feature?

This is a good thing.  What will happen each time when your mail
server retries the delivery?  It only keeps track of delivery to
one mailbox.  It can't tell what the sieve script is likely to do.

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-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-