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sander815

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i have a 'problem' with setting sizes for users mailboxes.
I just tried it with my own account, set info@domain to 1 meg, but when i sent something bigger then 1 meg, the mail gets stuck in /var/spool/exim/input, and no msg is sent back that the user mailbox is full

guess its exim.conf that has to be adjusted, but how?
 
A "defer" means the message is waiting for your max-time setting for frozen messages.

(That's because mailboxes are most likely full when someone hasn't emptied; it's certainly not reasonably a permanent error.)

After the maximum time for retries the email will be returned to the sender.

Jeff
 
ok

is it also possible to send bounce an email directly when a userbox is full? i think the 4d i have now in my exim.conf is a bit too long for msgs not being delivered becuase the user email box is too small
 
See the /etc/exim.conf file.

Learn it. :)

Modify it.

Restart exim.

But be prepared for complaints when people don't get mail because they haven't read their email in half a day.

Jeff
 
There's a good reason for standards, and exactly what kind of error (temporary or permanent) to return in the event of a full mailbox, is a standard, described in one of the "RFCs" (the rules of the Internet).

If you break the RFCs then you're left in the rather uncofortable position of explaining to your users that they can't get their email because you've broken the rules.

There's a setting (in that same exim.conf file) you can make to return a permanent error if one individual email is larger than the mailbox size; again, take the time to learn :) .

Jeff
 
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