On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 12:34 +0000, Vapor wrote:
> > why are mails to a user that is overquota not rejected anymore?
>
> In my sendmail.mc (checked a few from 2.5 to 4.2 odd ISO) - they state:
>
> dnl #
> dnl # The -t option will retry delivery if e.g. the user runs over his quota.
> dnl #
> FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`procmail -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
>
> Notably the -t is missing, so it just fails the delivery if over quota and doesn't
> retry. I think this was mentioned on the list a long time ago.
>
> I've not checked what flags/options this sets in sendmail.cf, that file is gobbledegook
> to me and my brain starts to rot when I read it. I've whinged a while about updates
> being made directly to the sendmail.cf but it still happens sadly :(
>
> Anyways, if you are used to editing your sendmail.mc like myself, just locate the
> offending -t and delete it, cd /etc/mail, make - this will remake your sendmail.cf
> though so do some backups etc. incase your .mc and .cf are not in sync with updates.
>
Right! deleting the -t flag solves the problem, but as usual, the next
prob occurs:
Now mailing to an overquota-user results in a not really informing mail,
not telling the sender that the recipient is overquota.
Any other flags to get my beloved "User is overquota" mail?
Thanx
RoB