Re: Postfix, quotas, and bouncing back (rejecting)

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Postfix, quotas, and bouncing back (rejecting)
\ Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre (13 Jun 2007)
. \ mouss (13 Jun 2007)
. \ Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre (13 Jun 2007)
. . \ mouss (13 Jun 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Postfix, quotas, and bouncing back (rejecting)
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	mouss
Date:	13 Jun 2007

Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "mouss" <mlist.only>
> Cc: "Postfix Mailing List" <postfix-users>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Postfix, quotas, and bouncing back (rejecting)
>
>
>> Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> Here I'm again with this topic... I have been told that maildrop
>>> stores mail in queue till the mailbox is NOT overquota so when can
>>> accept mail... and if the user doesn't clean it's mailbox and the
>>> message expires on queue this is deleted...
>>
>> maildrop has no queue.
>>
>>> but I prefer by my mail volume the messages undeliverable for
>>> overquota for example a bounce to be send to sender and to reject
>>> it's messages... this is essential for my new postfix
>>> implementation... how could I get this? I have heard that vda patch
>>> does that but also have heard it's quite unstable... what do you
>>> think mates?
>>> Bye
>>> Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre
>>> Dpto sistemas y empresas
>>> Infobiok C.B.
>>
>
> Yep I know that but when maildrop can deliver a message, this is
> stored in postfix queue till it's deliverable...

since you know, why say random things? maildrop and postfix are two
completely separate pieces.

> and I want to avoid this concretely by rejecting and bouncing

Quoting Viktor:

"
The sender gets a bounce if and only if maildrop returns a permanent
failure code or when it returns a temporary error code long enough
for the mail to age out of the queue...
"

so you will need to ask on the courier-maildrop list.