On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:37:08PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> --On 6 December 2006 12:26:12 +0000 Chris Lightfoot <chris@???>
> wrote:
[...]
> >context. Under normal circumstances a retry will
> >(eventually) succeed, because the user will reduce their
> >disk usage to get back under quota.
>
> But, we're not describing normal circumstances. We're describing a
> situation where the user has been given a period of time to do this, and
> hasn't. Perhaps they've died.
you might be, but I'm not! I have seen a number of sites
(mostly admittedly running Exchange) where sending to
given (living) users alternates between successful
completion and 5xx over-quota errors on a timescale of
hours to days.
(Investigation suggests in the case I'm thinking of that
this is a consequence of miserly quotas and high mail
volumes.)
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