[Dovecot] Quota over 2GB supported?
I'm using Courier-imap and gonna change to dovecot. Courier-imap supports quota over 2GB size. Does dovecot's Maildir++ quota support over 2GB?
On Jul 11, 2006, at 11:52 PM, Frank Cusack wrote:
On July 12, 2006 10:27:09 AM +0900 ssoo@siliconfile.com wrote:
I'm using Courier-imap and gonna change to dovecot. Courier-imap supports quota over 2GB size. Does dovecot's Maildir++ quota support over 2GB?
2GB?! Now can you really call that a "quota"? :-)
Easy, I need 5GB quotas for a new service I am going to start. But I
may only enforce it on the MTA end. We'll see.
I have one customer of my current service (no quotas enabled) who is
ip between 3 and 4gb now. He deals in watches and has lots of image
attachments and his mailbox grows really fast.
Chad
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
* On 12/07/06 00:26 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
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| On Jul 11, 2006, at 11:52 PM, Frank Cusack wrote:
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| >On July 12, 2006 10:27:09 AM +0900 ssoo@siliconfile.com wrote:
| >>I'm using Courier-imap and gonna change to dovecot.
| >>Courier-imap supports quota over 2GB size.
| >>Does dovecot's Maildir++ quota support over 2GB?
| >
| >2GB?! Now can you really call that a "quota"? :-)
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| Easy, I need 5GB quotas for a new service I am going to start. But I may only enforce it on the MTA end. We'll
| see.
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| I have one customer of my current service (no quotas enabled) who is ip between 3 and 4gb now. He deals in
| watches and has lots of image attachments and his mailbox grows really fast.
Give him a dedicated server with no quota ;)
-Wash
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
| >>Courier-imap supports quota over 2GB size. | >>Does dovecot's Maildir++ quota support over 2GB? | > | >2GB?! Now can you really call that a "quota"? :-) | | Easy, I need 5GB quotas for a new service I am going to start. But I may only enforce it on the MTA end. We'll | see. | | I have one customer of my current service (no quotas enabled) who is ip between 3 and 4gb now. He deals in | watches and has lots of image attachments and his mailbox grows really fast.
Give him a dedicated server with no quota ;)
Actually, there are cases where large quotas are the last resort, e.g. we usually tell the staff "there is no quota", but, well, some treat this sentence literally and delete _no_ _single_ mail, not even SPAM, and, furthermore, used the mail store as file store. So we enforced a filesystem based 8GB limit, and, guess what, some (approx one of 35) hit the limit.
Bye,
-- Steffen Kaiser
Steffen Kaiser wrote:
Actually, there are cases where large quotas are the last resort, e.g. we usually tell the staff "there is no quota", but, well, some treat this sentence literally and delete _no_ _single_ mail, not even SPAM, and, furthermore, used the mail store as file store. So we enforced a filesystem based 8GB limit, and, guess what, some (approx one of 35) hit the limit.
Bye,
Generally, we also come at this problem by saying "there is no mail quota, but please keep it reasonable".
Yes, some people's versions of reasonable are different than others, but generally I've found that "keep it reasonable" encourages most people to behave.[1] ;)
-Jeff
[1] except when it doesn't :)
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On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 00:52, Frank Cusack wrote:
On July 12, 2006 10:27:09 AM +0900 ssoo@siliconfile.com wrote:
I'm using Courier-imap and gonna change to dovecot. Courier-imap supports quota over 2GB size. Does dovecot's Maildir++ quota support over 2GB?
2GB?! Now can you really call that a "quota"? :-)
A dollar's worth of disk space is a problem?
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
On Jul 12, 2006, at 7:02 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 00:52, Frank Cusack wrote:
On July 12, 2006 10:27:09 AM +0900 ssoo@siliconfile.com wrote:
I'm using Courier-imap and gonna change to dovecot. Courier-imap supports quota over 2GB size. Does dovecot's Maildir++ quota support over 2GB?
2GB?! Now can you really call that a "quota"? :-)
A dollar's worth of disk space is a problem?
Care to rethink the question?
Consider "a dollar's worth of disk space" (which is actually quite a
lot more with high performance redundant arrays) multiplied by lots
of users = lots of money
Chad
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 07:50 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 00:52, Frank Cusack wrote:
On July 12, 2006 10:27:09 AM +0900 ssoo@siliconfile.com wrote:
I'm using Courier-imap and gonna change to dovecot. Courier-imap supports quota over 2GB size. Does dovecot's Maildir++ quota support over 2GB?
2GB?! Now can you really call that a "quota"? :-)
A dollar's worth of disk space is a problem?
Care to rethink the question?
Consider "a dollar's worth of disk space" (which is actually quite a
lot more with high performance redundant arrays) multiplied by lots
of users = lots of money
It might be lots of money or it might not be. Software mirrored SATA drives or a 3ware raid will serve a small/medium office nicely (for some definition of small/medium). So it becomes 2 dollars. Google stores 2 gigs for free...
Regardless, it shouldn't be a software limitation, especially after years of painful experience with 2GB limits lurking in on piece of software or another long after the OS claimed to have fixed that.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
participants (7)
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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
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Frank Cusack
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Jeff Ballard
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Les Mikesell
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Odhiambo Washington
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ssooï¼ siliconfile.com
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Steffen Kaiser