[dovecot] Re: Dovecot and Quotas

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 18:48, Mike Machado wrote:
> Is there anything that can be done so that when users IMAP to their
> inbox and have reached their filesystem quota, that they can still
> DELETE their mail? They can login, but when they go to delete/expunge
> this is the error I get in syslog. I have tried mail_read_mmaped to yes
> and no, and same result.
> 
> Mar 25 14:54:27 penguin1 imap(bob): file_set_size() failed with index
> data file /home/bob/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.data: Disk quota
> exceededMar 25 14:54:27 penguin1 imap(bob): mmap_istream.madvise():
> Function not implemented
> Mar 25 14:54:28 penguin1 last message repeated 65 times
> 
> 
> 
> When using UW IMAP, sometimes users can delete mail and other times they
> cannot. I am desperately seeking a solution to have customers be able to
> delete their own mail when their box is full and not have to call our
> support center. Any suggestions? Thanks.

What about making soft file quotas w/unlimited grace periods.

You'd have to lace your mail system into it so it could tell them they
are over quota and bounce mail but not actually have a hard limit.

-sv