[Dovecot] Worthwile to use quotas?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On 23-12-2004 19:43, Peter Clark wrote:
> On Thursday 23 December 2004 13:01, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 
>>Wietse Venema does not believe in soft quotas, and I believe he has a
>>point. The Maildir++ quota support requires a somewhat complicated
>>update protocol, and is effectively on a voluntary basis.
> 
>     What are the reasons against soft quotas?
> 
> 
>>Consider using hard quotas instead.
> 
>     Am I correct in thinking that soft quotas==quotas imposed by software such 
> as maildrop, while hard quotas==quotas imposed on the user by the kernel? If 
> so, then this is problematic, since all the users are virtual, and none have 
> a shell account to impose a quota upon.

Hard quota is when managed by the kernel, yes. It does not require shell
access, but it does (as far I know) require each user to have a unique
user-ID on the system.


 - Jonas

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