lmtp should give temporary failure for mailbox unknown

[Simon Matter]

> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 11:55 -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
>> I have seen this behavior.  It happens when a mail account exists in
>> authentication (ie mysql) but when the mailbox doesn't exist yet.
>>
>> Are you using autocreate inbox?  If so, are you sure that the inbox
>> exists for these mailboxes prior to the message delivery?  Or you could
>> enable "createonpost"  (I recommend against this for oh-so-many reasons,
>> but YMMV)
>>
> No
> I dont use autocreate inbox. And as I have said lmtp accepts mail for
> the same ids most of the times. One in every ~300 mails bounces
> unexplicably
>
> I am now doing a dumb thing of running postfix on the cyrus box too to
> accept the mails and relay to unix lmtp. This is loading the already
> loaded cyrus server ( with approx 20000 active acounts ) .. but atleast
> clients dont get bounced messages from my bosses id.

The question is, does it still happen with unix lmtp? Did you already
switch to the new configuration?

Simon