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List:       postfix-users
Subject:    Re: Postfix & LDAs
From:       Patrick Ben Koetter <p () state-of-mind ! de>
Date:       2009-10-29 22:39:31
Message-ID: 20091029223931.GB5865 () state-of-mind ! de
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* Marty Anstey <marty.anstey@sunwave.net>:
> Hi all,
> I have a quick question which relates to how Postfix interacts with LDAs
> (in particular, Dovecot).
> 
> I've asked this question over on the Dovecot list, but it sounds like
> the issue is with how Postfix handles the response from Dovecot's LDA.
> 
> When Dovecot's LDA (deliver) gets handed a message for a mailbox which
> is over quota, it exits with EX_NOPERM. Postfix sees this and generates
> a bounce.
> 
> While I realize that this is perfectly acceptable behaviour, I've been
> asked to look into the possibility of having messages rejected inline
> during the SMTP session.
> 
> Does anyone have any insight on how we could make this happen?

IIRC Wolfram <http://wolfram.schlich.org/> has been working on some code that
does exactly what you are looking for. I don't know which state his project is
in. Look for yourself.

p@rick


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saslfinger (debugging SMTP AUTH):
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