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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:40:21 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
Cc:        John Brooks <john@day-light.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail(8) meets the digital camera
Message-ID:  <20020620064021.GB69856@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20020612100657.N2462-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
References:  <001d01c211cc$a27d0ca0$c905010a@daylight.net> <20020612100657.N2462-100000@ren.sasknow.com>

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On 2002-06-12 10:08 +0000, Ryan Thompson wrote:
> John Brooks wrote to 'Ryan Thompson':
> > Here's another thought, this email may be bigger than their entire
> > mailbox quota, in which case will they ever get it?
>
> Oh probably... In which case it will be dropped from the queue
> eventually. I'm not worried about the queue so much as I am curious
> about what kind of mail server sends back deferred responses when
> their users' quotas have been exceeded. ;-)

All of them?  There is no easy way to check for quotas before
receiving the entire message, and by then the sending SMTP server is
waiting for a quick response to her DATA command.  Since local
delivery might take a while, the only sensible thing to do is to
accept the message anyway, even if it exceeds the user quota in a
short while.  The deferred notices are probably some silly
notification system that tries to play smart.

- Giorgos


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