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Date: Wed Apr 02 2008 - 09:29:42 CDT

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Brian,

> We are mostly a software development company. We have developers that
> have decided to use email as a means of error notification from our
> applications (perhaps not the best approach, but not one that I can
> alter at this time). So I set them up with mailbox accounts on postfix
> (on Ubuntu server). The way the applications do their error reporting
> causes extremely large quantities of email to come through once in a
> while due to bad app configs. This fills the mailboxes. Once full,
> postfix tries to reply with "mailbox full", which swamps the originating
> servers.

My advice to you is to fix the real problem. Educate your developers on
writing providing quality error handling in their applications.

That's the issue you should be pursuing here.

John

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