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Hi,

I need to bounce over-quota messages, rather than have them stuffing up my queue for 5 days to then be bounced. I found a message from this list from 2004[1] which details how to create a maildrop wrapper as follows:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/maildrop $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 if [[ "$?" == "77" || "$?" == "75" ]]; then exit 100 fi

This serves to bounce messages for users who are over quota, rather than have them be temporary failures. Unfortunately, the bounces are incredibly opaque that none of my users can understand, even the geeks thought something was broken:

<us...@mydomain.net>: Command died with status 100: "/usr/local/bin/maildrop_wrapper". Command output: maildrop: maildir over quota.

Sure, the words "over quota" appear in there, but if you have no idea what the first words are, you aren't going to figure out what this means by somehow figuring out that you need to ignore the first 17 words to get to the last two which actually indicate the problem.

How can I make this more legible?

Thanks, Micah

My postfix main.cf:

# maildrop unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mail argv=/usr/local/bin/maildrop_wrapper -w 90 -d ${recipient}

1. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.maildrop/2490/match=quota+wrapper+andre