lmtp should give temporary failure for mailbox unknown

[Farzad FARID]

Hi,

Daniel Eckl wrote:
> 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
>   
But in fact there are cases in a Cyrus Murder configuration when lmtpd
returns a failure with a 5xx code because "mupdate" is simply not ready
or temporarily unavailable. So simply setting soft bounces in Postfix is
IMHO overkill and hides a "misfeature" in the Cyrus Imapd code.

Therefore we should concentrate on finding the real cause(s) of the
problem and try to solve them. I'll try to file a bug report by
describing a reproducible test case for my setup.

Ram, do you also use mupdate or any external source of information that
could be the cause of the error lmtp gives you?

 Regards

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