> -----Message d'origine----- > De : centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] De la part de Andreas Rogge > Envoyé : 27 juillet 2009 16:24 > À : CentOS mailing list > Objet : Re: [CentOS] potsfix keeping mail in queue on delivery error > > Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 14:37 +0200 schrieb Robert Grasso: > > Hello, > > > > Our mail server is running CentOS 5.3. I configured postfix > with maildrop as the MDA. I had to deal with a strange issue : a user > > sent an email to an alias, which resolves into several > internal addresses. One of these addresses had its mbox > filled up (reached > > the mailbox_size_limit); so maildrop reported a 0x19 error > code to postfix, who kept the mail in its queue, and repeatedly resent > > the email : thus every member of the alias list received > many copies of this email, except of course the one with the > filled mbox. > > > > Is there a way to configure postfix so that it does not resend the > > email to the recipients who do not report any error ? > > We run Postfix + Cyrus and a some of our users are often "over quota". > Using virtual alias maps in postfix for aliases, leads to the > following > effect: the mail is "splitted" by postfix and then requeued > for a evety > recipient of the alias (not the alias itself). If submission > fails (e.g. > "over quota"), then the mail stays in the queue and submission is > retried regularly. > As the mail was already splitted before the submission attempt to the > mailbox, only the mail for the mailbox that's failing is kept in the > queue. > seems to be the solution ! I never used virtual alias maps so far. Thank you Andreas ! Regards Robert