On 31.5.2013, at 16.52, Birta Levente <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ?
I'll add that if someone can tell me a good reason why they would ever want to set it to "yes". I try to avoid adding settings that nobody uses.
