Ok. Wasn't sure. I've seen my filter rules screw up, and not have a mailbox, or bad perms on the mailbox, and those went to INBOX, and if that continued to happen, I'm fine with that too.
Thanks! On 5/31/13, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31.5.2013, at 16.44, Larry Rosenman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > Sure, error logging would work as it does now. > >> I.E. permissions, etc. > > Permission error isn't actually a temporary failure. In that situation the > mail would be delivered to INBOX. A temporary error is only something that > really should fix itself by waiting/retrying, without the user or sysadmin > having to do anything specific to that user. > >> 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 > > -- 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
