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To: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
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Subject: Re: Sendmail and Quota 
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 13:47:29 -0600
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org>
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    Jacques> It is trivial to patch sendmail's sysexits.h with a new
    Jacques> return code, such as EX_QUOTA, and use that return code
    Jacques> in `deliver' for over quota conditions.  You can then
    Jacques> handle EX_QUOTA as a temporary or a permanent error, as
    Jacques> you wish.

Even easier is to have sendmail use LMTP to talk to deliver, in which
case deliver returns a 4XX code to sendmail in an overquota condition.
No code hacking required (plus you get the other benefits of using
LMTP with Cyrus).

--lyndon

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