From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 19 23:40:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B3BD37B404 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b219.otenet.gr [212.205.244.227]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5K6ePqK003153; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:40:26 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5K6eNdv069950; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:40:23 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g5K6eL50069949; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:40:21 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:40:21 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ryan Thompson Cc: John Brooks , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail(8) meets the digital camera Message-ID: <20020620064021.GB69856@hades.hell.gr> References: <001d01c211cc$a27d0ca0$c905010a@daylight.net> <20020612100657.N2462-100000@ren.sasknow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020612100657.N2462-100000@ren.sasknow.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message