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 <[email protected]> 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. > > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 (c) E-Mail: [email protected] US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893
