> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Andreas Rogge
> Envoyé : 27 juillet 2009 16:24
> À : CentOS mailing list
> Objet : Re: potsfix keeping mail in queue on delivery error
>
> Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 14:37 +0200 schrieb Robert Grasso:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Our mail server is running CentOS 5.3. I configured postfix
> with maildrop as the MDA. I had to deal with a strange issue : a user
> > sent an email to an alias, which resolves into several
> internal addresses. One of these addresses had its mbox
> filled up (reached
> > the mailbox_size_limit); so maildrop reported a 0x19 error
> code to postfix, who kept the mail in its queue, and repeatedly resent
> > the email : thus every member of the alias list received
> many copies of this email, except of course the one with the
> filled mbox.
> >
> > Is there a way to configure postfix so that it does not resend the
> > email to the recipients who do not report any error ?
>
> We run Postfix + Cyrus and a some of our users are often "over quota".
> Using virtual alias maps in postfix for aliases, leads to the
> following
> effect: the mail is "splitted" by postfix and then requeued
> for a evety
> recipient of the alias (not the alias itself). If submission
> fails (e.g.
> "over quota"), then the mail stays in the queue and submission is
> retried regularly.
> As the mail was already splitted before the submission attempt to the
> mailbox, only the mail for the mailbox that's failing is kept in the
> queue.
>
seems to be the solution ! I never used virtual alias maps so far. Thank you Andreas !
Regards
Robert
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