[Dovecot] Quota handling - opportunity for new Feature?

[Charles Marcus]

On 5/22/2007 Charles Marcus (CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com) wrote:
> Now, obviously, this would all have to be configurable (I'm guessing 
> this would all live in the Quota Plugin - or maybe it would be an 
> alternate Quota plugin) - off by default, etc... 

Also, let me be clear... I am not the 'sys admin from hell'... what I am 
talking about are corporate situations where corporate policy *requires* 
quotas, and requires that they be enforced.

Personally I don't like quotas - but, I do understand the reasons for 
them. I have one client that has users who regularly email themselves 
25+MB messages with pictures of their kids, new house, dog licking 
himself - and end up with 5+GB of email, most of which is crap like 
this. Multiply this user times 50, or 100, or 1000 - and backups become 
really unwieldy, just so Jim can keep 5GB of pictures of his dog in his 
email.

So, of *course* you would have rules in place to deal with the genuine 
situation where someone needs more storage, and you allow for this.

But, if this FR were implemented (or even implementable), at least the 
users would have consistent, meaningful instructions that are 
automatically provided if/when they go over quota. Your over-quota 
status message could also inform them of the procedure for requesting 
additional storage.

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Best regards,

Charles