[Dovecot] Purging /var/mail/username ?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Dec 23 18:17:55 EET 2004


On 23.12.2004, at 17:04, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> Sounds like you are used to the special mbox feature of UW-imap: If the
> file $HOME/mbox exists, then that is masqueraded as INBOX and when
> reading it using POP3 or IMAP the content of /var/mail/$user is first
> transfered to $HOME/mbox.
>
> I like that feature: It makes it possible to do hardquota and if 
> hitting
> the roof it is at first only user and the local admin knows, instead of
> emails bouncing right away.

It also makes it possible with small quotas to prevent user from 
getting any new mail by sending him a large email :)

Although I guess Dovecot could still try moving the other mails.
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