RE: delivering to over-quota users based on sender

From: Paul Haldane (no email)
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 09:02:42 EST

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme
    >
    > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 14:19 +0000, Paul Haldane wrote:
    > > We're running a couple of largish cyrus (2.x) imap servers (with
    > > sendmail). Our admin people have come up with a request to
    > > be able to
    > > deliver messages (from certain email addresses) to people who have
    > > reached their mailbox quota.
    ...
     
    > we do this with Exim, so I can't offer help with the Sendmail
    > definitions. for messages which qualify, we use a special mailer
    > ("transport" in Exim terminology) which invokes "deliver -q". normal
    > delivery happens with LMTP. it is possible to do this
    > directly in LMTP
    > (that's what deliver(8) does), but Exim doesn't support sending the
    > required parameter ("IGNOREQUOTA") in the RCPT TO command. although
    > deliver(8) isn't as reliable as direct LMTP, the volume of such
    > exceptional messages should be so low it doesn't matter much.

    Thanks. I asked the same question in comp.mail.sendmail and got a reference to

    http://anfi.homeunix.net/sendmail/smarttab.html

    as a way of routing messages based on sender in sendmail.

    However after some further discussion with colleagues we decided not to implement any of this at the moment. Main justification is that a large chunk of our user community has their mail delivered to an Exchange server and the Exchange admins say that there's no way for them to force delivery there.

    We'll probably revisit this in the future and look at moving to Exim (since we want to do that anyway).

    Paul

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