[Dovecot] Dovecot discards mail over quota

[Tomasz Suchodolski]

Timo Sirainen pisze:
> On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Gary V wrote:
> 
>> Then a bounce is created stating the mail was rejected:
>>
>> Your message to <test at example.com> was automatically rejected:
>> Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full).
>>
>> Question: is it possible (without changing code) to alter this to
>> where deliver would instead tempfail or something. Somehow it seems
>> wrong to me to tell the MTA that everything is good, and then silently
>> discard messages - regardless of the fact dovecot creates a bounce.
>> This is not necessarily ideal either, but I _am_ wondering if this is
>> configurable or not.
> 
> a) deliver -e
> 
> b) quota_full_tempfail=yes
> 
> c) a+b
> 
> 
Yeah, this is very useful. I wish dovecot 1.0.13(which I am using :) ) 
has no such option.
MS Exchange for example when gets "automatically rejected" message 
replaces it with "Your message to <> was deleted without being read" or 
something like that.
This is very confusing for users.

Tomasz Suchodolski