[Dovecot] Filesystem quotas

[Alexandre Chapellon]

I think by using dovecot quota you can exclude some directories from the 
quota (e.g: spam or Trahs or whatever you like).
More specificly it is better using dovecot quota as it will allow LDA to 
report quota exceeded in NDR . If using filesystem quota, I guess you'll 
send ugly messages reporting IO error or enability too write file, which 
is really not serious.

regards.

Le 10/10/2011 00:44, Steve Fatula a écrit :
>> From:Eduardo Casarero<ecasarero at gmail.com>
>> To:Steve Fatula<compconsultant at yahoo.com>
>> Cc:Dovecot List<dovecot at dovecot.org>
>> Sent:Sunday, October 9, 2011 2:37 PM
>> Subject:Re: [Dovecot] Filesystem quotas
>>
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>> But if you dont use quotas how do you know if the user is out of space? Or does the user gets a notification that it's running out of space, before you start rejecting emails?
> How do I know, or, how does the user know? I couldn't care less, so, not an issue for me. The user gets notification when their used space is above a certain percent. These are system users, so, email is just one part of their quota space. They might have 1 email, and build a massive file, they'd still be out of space. 
>
> So, what do I get by using the Dovecot Quota/FS plugin? Is it just a matter of it counting used space? Something else? Better handling of out of space?

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