[Dovecot] Well, "Hard filesystem quota can also be problematic"

Curtis Maloney cmaloney at cardgate.net
Tue Aug 2 02:13:16 EEST 2005


Stewart Dean wrote:
> We do...otherwise, there's the inevitable 'Tragedy of the Commons'...to 
> say nothing of idiots mailing MB files to everybody in the community. 
> And we're still on UW IMAP and the one-big-file INBOX which is a horror 
> show when it gets big.

I also run Dovecot on a box with filesystem quotas, but just like Alan 
Premselaar, I also use Maildir.  When people have hit their quota, there's been 
no evidence of lost mail, as Postfix simply refuses the message.

Of course, if you're going to stick with mbox, well, hope you enjoy the headaches :)

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Curtis Maloney


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