TEMPFAIL

[Julian Field]

At 15:04 24/05/2002, you wrote:
>I have been testing and it seems to have been working for about an
>hour.  The problem came from the "-t" switch given to procmail under the
>Mlocal section.  I found this same question in your maillist archives
>where several people running redhat were seeing this.  (note: when
>switching to amavis I didn't use procmail for Mlocal instead I used the
>amavis script for Mlocal).  This may be something worth putting into the
>faq for people as it appears redhat sets the default Mlocal procmail to
>try and re-deliver the mail(by using a "fail softly" switch of procmail)
>in hopes that the user will get under their quota and the mail can be
>delivered.

Thanks for the info. I'll send this message to the list to get it in the
list archives.

> > > > At 04:12 24/05/2002, you wrote:
> > > > >Hello,
> > > > >I have recently decided to switch from amavis to mailscanner and after
> > > > >installing I started getting lots of mail queued up that was destined
> > > > >for users who are over their quota.  I searched the faq(nothing their)
> > > > >and the mailing list where I found a couple of messages asking about
> > > > >this problem but no answers.  I let the queue slowly climb to 4000
> > > > >messages(3900 of which probably should have been bounced) and
> decided to
> > > > >switch back to amavis while I try to debug what is wrong with the
> > > > >current setup.  If you have any thought/suggestions I would greatly
> > > > >appreciate them.

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