From: David Mayne <dmayne@mindspring.net>
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Subject: RCPT and user's mailbox quota exceeded question
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 17:37:00 -0400 (EDT)
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My apologies if this has been covered before - I searched the
archives and read the 452 vs 552 response codes on RCPT threads,
but neither the current draft or these messages appear to 
answer this question.

   452 Requested action not taken: insufficient system storage
   552 Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation

According to smtpupd-10, 452 and 552 codes are used to indicate
that the server has had enough recipients. Given that the
452 and 552 codes are defined as above, what is the appropriate
response code for the server to return on RCPT when the user's 
mailbox is over quota, and we (at least on a temporary basis) 
don't want to accept the message for this user ?

Randall Gellens touched on this in archive message 3350 in
the thread  Re: From the chair: 552 vs. 452, where he stated:

>Since 552 is defined as "exceedes storage allocation", and is used if the
>size of the message is greater than the user's disk quota, I think we
>should just clarify that too many recipients is 452 and leave 552 as disk
>quota exceeded.  Otherwise the client might keep resending a message that
>it should just bounce.

Was any agreement ever reached on what is the appropriate 
reponse code to return for mailbox quota violations on RCPT ?

Thanks,

David
dmayne@mindspring.net