[Dovecot] quota question

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Fri Nov 3 08:25:01 UTC 2006


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On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Jakob Curdes wrote:

> .. maybe a silly one, but how does the user get notified when he is over 
> quota? Did not find anything in the docs. Is there a general IMAP way to do 
> this or what else ?

I run a cron job (as root) that creates <<MailDir>>/.INBOX/new/over_quota 
and chown's the file to the user. Of course, all 
*/<<MailDir>>/.INBOX/new/over_quota* files are deleted prior the check.

People with active forwards also get notified via their forwards.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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