lmtp should give temporary failure for mailbox unknown

[Ramprasad]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 10:23 +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
> > 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?
> 

Now that you have mentioned .. I am looking at the logs and seeing
similar bounces on unix lmtp too. Looks like I *really* have a problem

Thanks
Ram




> Simon