[Dovecot] quota: ignore deleted messages (?)

[Sven Hartge]

Angel L. Mateo <amateo at um.es> wrote:
> El 25/08/12 09:23, Timo Sirainen escribió:
>> On 25.8.2012, at 1.49, Sven Hartge wrote:
>>
>>>> How about just disabling the quota enforcing and doing a nightly run
>>>> of some type of enforcing (sending notification email and/or disabling
>>>> new mail delivery until user has more quota again)?
>>>
>>> As a last resort, yes. If possible, I'd like to keep the feedback about
>>> mailbox size as direct as possible.
>>>
>>> Disabling an account only once per night might be acceptable, but the
>>> reenabling of the account, once a user has freed some space, has to be
>>> instant or I would get constant complains from the users (the ones with
>>> the biggest mailboxes being the professors, which can be quite the pain
>>> to work with, if they believe they don't get what they think they are
>>> entitled to get).

>> You can use quota warning scripts to send warnings and enable account
>> instantly when it goes under 100%.
>>
> But, if you still use quota, you are still counting deleted messages
> in the quota. Aren't you?

Quota would be noenforcing. So the users still sees "105% of quota used"
but this does not result in any mail bouncing at once.

Grüße,
Sven.

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