dovecot - May 2013 - LDA/LMTP - saving to INBOX fallback on tempfail?

Currently if saving to mailbox fails for any reason, the mail is saved to INBOX
instead. Same if a Sieve redirect fails, the mail is saved to INBOX. I'm
wondering if anyone actually prefers this behavior when the error is temporary?
For example if some index file corruption was detected, the save will most
likely succeed the next time it's attempted. Or if the redirect fails
because the SMTP server can't be connected to at the moment. So I was
thinking about changing v2.2 LDA/LMTP to simply return temporary failure instead
of saving the mail to INBOX.

I think I like the temporary failure idea.  BUT, please make sure to log
all pertinent information to maillog so the admin/user can fix it if it's
not something that is automatically fixed.

I.E. permissions, etc.

Thanks!  Love dovecot btw.  works great in my setup
(FreeBSD/ZFS/mbox/LDA/Exim).



On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> Currently if saving to mailbox fails for any reason, the mail is saved to
> INBOX instead. Same if a Sieve redirect fails, the mail is saved to INBOX.
> I'm wondering if anyone actually prefers this behavior when the error
is
> temporary? For example if some index file corruption was detected, the save
> will most likely succeed the next time it's attempted. Or if the
redirect
> fails because the SMTP server can't be connected to at the moment. So I
was
> thinking about changing v2.2 LDA/LMTP to simply return temporary failure
> instead of saving the mail to INBOX.
>
>

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On 31/05/2013 16:41, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Currently if saving to mailbox fails for any reason, the mail is saved to
INBOX instead. Same if a Sieve redirect fails, the mail is saved to INBOX.
I'm wondering if anyone actually prefers this behavior when the error is
temporary? For example if some index file corruption was detected, the save will
most likely succeed the next time it's attempted. Or if the redirect fails
because the SMTP server can't be connected to at the moment. So I was
thinking about changing v2.2 LDA/LMTP to simply return temporary failure instead
of saving the mail to INBOX.
>
What about configurable save_to_inbox_if_tmperror = yes / no ?




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