lmtp should give temporary failure for mailbox unknown

[Daniel Eckl]

Hmmm, well, a non existent mailbox is no temprary failure, it's very
permanent. okay, in this case it's a false error, but to make another
error to circumvent that is not a smooth solution.

Perhaps you might want to set "soft_bounce = yes" in postfix' main.cf
until you have found the error.
See: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#soft_bounce

Best,
Daniel

On 11.10.2006 17:31, Ramprasad wrote:
> This is actually related to my previous question ... 
> 
> I just configured my cyrus server to accept mails directly from my
> remote postfix server  over lmtp 
> 
> Everything seems to work fine but sometimes lmtp gives strange errors
> like 
> 
>  to=<X>, orig_to=<X>, relay=202.162.229.40[202.162.229.40]:24,
> delay=0.26, delays=0.25/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (host
> 202.162.229.40[202.162.229.40] said: 550-Mailbox unknown.  Either there
> is no mailbox associated with this 550-name or you do not have
> authorization to see it. 550 5.1.1 User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO
> command))
> 
> 
>   When actually the mailbox is valid. The same mail sent again reaches
> the mailbox without problems. The cyrus server is highly loaded most of
> the time.
> 
> 
> I want lmtp (over tcp) to give tempfail instead. I am already ensuring
> mbox exists at smtp level
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Ram
> 
> 
> 
> 
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