[Dovecot] POLL: v2.2 to allow one mail over quota?

Sven Hartge sven at svenhartge.de
Tue Oct 30 01:48:32 EET 2012


Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 22:39 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:

>> So what do you think about v2.2 allowing delivery of one last mail even if it brings the user over quota? 

> +1  only if configurable, and with an additional configurable quota
> percentage value option for those that do enable the function.

> In 99.9% of cases I could never see a service provider wanting this,
> but some small private businesses perhaps might see a benefit in it.

If your user quota is 1GiB (which is not big, if you look at todays user
quotas even at freemail providers) and the max mail size 30MiB, then a
users max mailbox size would then be 1054MiB.

Not an unreasonable price to pay for an easier to understand error
condition, IMHO.

Grüße,
Sven.
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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.



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