in recent versions of courier, there is a "backscatter blacklist" for local addresses with delivery errors. unfortunately, that feature also bring in a deadlock in some conditions.
consider this scenario: local user1 has a 10 megs quota someone send this user a 12 megs email, it gets accepted in the queue for whatever reason, then delivered later the account for user1 is now deadlocked until the 12 megs email bounce, 6 days later the failsafe timer of 2 hours doesn't help, because the email is still in the queue. in previous versions, an overquota scenario was a permanent error (5xx), that mail got bounced and that was it. now it locks the account. it might not be a big deal for johnny and his 2 friends on their private server, but for an enterprise that's another matter. any solution to this problem? or should i just turn off the backscatter protection completly? -- Daniel Higgins Netcommunications Inc. Administrateur Systèmes et Réseaux / Networks and Systems Administrator Tel: 450-346-3401 Fax: 450-346-3587 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netc.net
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