[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Daniel,
> if you do this, sendmail will try to deliver the mail (usually in short
> intervals) again.
> Because amavis will scan it every time again, this may bring you a BIG load
> on the
> machine. Usually those mailboxes that get lots of attachments are over quota
> :-(
yes, you´re right. They are getting a lot of mail with pictures in our
case.
> It could be better for some use cases to give an return code 69
> (unavailable) to discard the mail and send an error message to the sender.
> If you don't want this, set at least a big MinQueueAge value in your
> sendmail.cf.
i also installed a small script which scans the output of the quota
command and sends mail to people which have exceedes 90% of their quota
limit. This script is run once an hour.
Greetings, Jorg
