Redirect on overquota

J. Roeleveld joost at antarean.org
Fri Mar 5 05:18:00 EST 2010


On Friday 05 March 2010 11:09:43 ram wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:35 +0100, Marc Patermann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > ram schrieb:
> > > Can I set up lmtp such a way that the overquota messages are redirected
> > > to a postmaster account
> >
> > What do you mean by that?
> > If the mailbox is "over quota" LMTP rejects the mail with a temporary
> > error 4xx. So the MTA can not deliver it (this time).
> 
> Yes.
> Instead can lmtp be configured to accept the mail , and redirect to a
> postmaster account

Why not reconfigure the process delivering the mail to Cyrus (for instance 
Postfix) to forward the message to a different account when it is unable to 
deliver because of this error?
I would expect the error to actually specify the reason (mailbox full) ?

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Joost


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