[Dovecot] quota warnings clarification
I spent a long while trying to get quota warnings working with v1.1.3 on Centos5 before almost giving up.
I configured everything as per the instructions on the Quota wiki page however no warning emails were being generated when I tested & no debug messages in the log to give any clues as to what I was doing wrong.
It turns out I wasn't doing anything wrong, but just misunderstanding at what point the warnings are generated. The warning email appears to only be generated when a message is moved from one folder to another. I was expecting the warning to be generated when the INBOX was simply opened & viewed!
Is this how it is supposed to work? If so, perhaps a note of clarification could be added to the wiki page?
Make the switch to the world's best email. Get Yahoo!7 Mail! http://au.yahoo.com/y7mailOn 9/30/2008, Ian B (porjo38@yahoo.com.au) wrote:
It turns out I wasn't doing anything wrong, but just misunderstanding at what point the warnings are generated. The warning email appears to only be generated when a message is moved from one folder to another. I was expecting the warning to be generated when the INBOX was simply opened & viewed!
Well... the main use for Quotas is for rejecting NEW messages at delivery time - not for controlling a static set of mailboxes.
Are you saying you didn't even test by sending yourself a test message?
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Charles
Well... the main use for Quotas is for rejecting NEW messages at delivery time - not for controlling a static set of mailboxes.
Are you saying you didn't even test by sending yourself a test message?
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The way I was testing was by setting the quota warning threshold low like 1%,2%,3% then sending myself test messages to try and generate a warning message. I would open my inbox in Thunderbird and see the quota level reach 1%,2% etc but no warning message. It was only when I actually deleted a message from my inbox (move to trash) that a warning was generated.
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Charles Marcus
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