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Date:  Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:07:02 +0100
From:  Roman Buerkle <buerkle (at mark) stimme.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:07784] Re: No over-quota reject
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <1162220823.3474.15.camel@silverbird>
In-Reply-To:  <20061030123006.M14964 (at mark) vaporised.com>
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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