[Dovecot] Dovecot generate file when over quota detected
Dominic Malolepszy
dmalolepszy at optusnet.com.au
Thu Aug 23 09:48:20 EEST 2012
Hi,
I am curious if Dovecot can add an empty file into a Maildir folder as
soon as a mailbox has exceeded 100% capacity, and later when it detects
the quota has fallen below 100% unlink the file. The idea is the Dovecot
LDA would deliver the message and if this caused the mailbox to reach
100%+, add a file into the maibox say "username/Maildir/overquota".
Interactions via Dovecot IMAP/POP3 that lower the mailbox usage, for
example the user popping, or deleting mail from the mailbox would
trigger Dovecot to unlink the file.
This means that an MTA can efficiently check for the existence of this
'overquota' file and return a "user at domain.com Mailbox full" TEMPFAIL
error early during the SMTP transaction prior to accepting any data.
Dominic
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