dovecot disk space settings

[Giles Coochey]

> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: dovecot disk space settings
>
>
>>> I don't want to restrict each mailbox size. It's just to prevent
>> running out space completely.
>>
>> Why? (If I may ask)
>>
>>
> To provide mailboxes with unlimited space. And to make it easier to
> administrate.
> My question is about an emergency option if someone has forgotten to
> migrate to new hardware. It's possible but a bit harder if the partition
> is out of space and there is no free byte left.
>
> Best,
>
> Marcel
>

On 22/10/2019 11:38, Marc Roos via dovecot wrote:
>   
>
> Ok, what about placing a dummy file of 5GB or so on the partition, that
> you can remove when necessary?
>
Or just monitor your disk space availability with a monitoring program 
(Nagios, CheckMK, whatever) and manage your disk space accordingly, you 
don't want to stop receiving email for your users, nor do you want to 
run out of disk space, and unless you have elastic storage in the cloud 
or something, you actually need to make decisions on managing available 
space (i.e. impose user limits, archive off old emails, buy new storage) 
and those decisions are not usually something that can be done 
automatically, unless you're using managed storage in the cloud.

-- 
Giles Coochey