[Dovecot] QUOTA Imap Extension

[Alan Premselaar]

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Brady Wetherington wrote:
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> I'm also planning a pretty decent-sized technology transition in the
> near future (switching to a shared-storage system with two servers, etc,
> etc), and I could be convinced to perhaps try and change my quotaing
> system at the same time - for instance, switching to filesystem quotas
> instead of vpopmail quotas, if that will help.

I'm using filesystem quotas with Maildir format mailboxes on RHEL3. I'm
using the 0.99.x series of dovecot while waiting for a chance to test
out the 1.0 series.

I'm also using squirrelmail for webmail access. I use the disk_quota
plugin to display the filesystem quota usage per user with out any
apparent problems.

> 
> The scary possibility that I guess I have to prepare myself for is that
> dovecot Just Doesn't Do It, and I need to figure out some other way of
> informing the clients of their quota usage - possibly a script that goes
> and recurses through maildirs and sends little emails if users are at a
> certain percentage of their actual usage, or something...I'm certainly
> not looking forward to writing that, but it's not a fate worse than
> death...
> 

I also do this.  at least RHEL3 comes with a program called "warn_quota"
that can be run from cron.  I actually re-wrote it in perl to implement
localization since I work in Japan at a Japanese company and needed to
report the quota status in Japanese.

alan
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