[Dovecot] Quota warning message ala courier

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed May 23 13:53:13 EEST 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:49 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> I have to face it, my users are retards:
> 
> * either they're using crap MUAs which will not display their quota to them
> * or they're using POP with "leave mail on server" and will never
>   notice their quota, unless it's too late
> * and once their quota is exceeded, their mails will bounce -- they'll
>   never notice that, though. 
> 
> Thus I need a feature in dovecot that will tell them via email:
> 
> Level1: "You ALMOST exceeded your quota, you're at 90% now"
> Level2: "You're very close to exceededin your quota, you're at 95% now"
> Level3: "Would you please clean up now? You're at 99% now"

http://dovecot.org/patches/quota-warning.patch would do it, assuming
you're not using filesystem quota.

I'm not exactly sure how its configuration went. It's described
somewhere in this mailing list.

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