dovecot - Oct 2006 - Question regarding bounce messages on quota full.

Hi all,

Using dovecot's LDA (debian backports package: 1.0rc2), users who have
exceeded their quota when receiving messages see the message get
bounced.

This works fine for us, however, the sender is sent a message as follows:

-- Start bounce text

ERROR This is the Postfix program at host foo.domain.com

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

			The Postfix program

<user at foo.domain.com>: Command died with status 11:
    "/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver"

-- End bounce text

Is it not possible to specify something a bit more civil for the
sender? a "User is over quota" message works much better here.

We're already running a script which notifies users when they approach
a certain specified % that they're about to exceed quota, however,
hoping they all comply is another thing entirely.

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Regards,
-- 
Mustafa A. Hashmi
mahashmi at gmail.com
mh at stderr.net

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 16:40 +0500, Mustafa A. Hashmi
wrote:
> Using dovecot's LDA (debian backports package: 1.0rc2), users who have
> exceeded their quota when receiving messages see the message get
> bounced.
You're using filesystem quota or virtual quota? Filesystem quota doesn't
work perfectly in Dovecot, see:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/FS
> <user at foo.domain.com>: Command died with status 11:
>     "/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver"
Of course it shouldn't crash. Possibly already fixed since 1.0.rc2
though.
> Is it not possible to specify something a bit more civil for the
> sender? a "User is over quota" message works much better here.
Yes, that's how it should have worked. :)
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