[Dovecot] Dovecot discards mail over quota

[Seth Mattinen]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 1/20/2009, Seth Mattinen (sethm at rollernet.us) wrote:
>> It's simply a fact these days that people find backscatter and 
>> misdirected bounces annoying. In many cases they end up at a forged 
>> address that had nothing to do with the original transaction. A well 
>> behaved receiver will make decisions during the SMTP transactions 
>> with appropriate response codes. It should never accept and generate 
>> a message later.
> 
> Well, its also about the fact that if one engages in such behavior, one
> will quickly find one's mailserver/IP address on numerous blacklists
> that are a pain to get off of, IF you can get off of them.
> 


Merely a reinforcement by the people who find backscatter unacceptable 
directed at people who can't take a hint. ;)

~Seth