Sam: 2008/3/4, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Luis Hernán Otegui writes: > > > Sometimes, when a user logs in, the webmail displays a space usage of, > > say, 90%, which is the real disk usage of the user. If the user > > deletes any mail (no matter the size), his quota usage drops violently > > to, say, 22%. This leads the user to the false security of having > > enough space on disc as to keep receiving mail, when he's really close > > to fill up his disc quota. I'm currently giving 500 MB to each user, > > so it's clearly not a problem of the quota being too little. > > > The quota reported by Courier-IMAP is not disk quota, but rather the > calculated "soft" quota that's manually tracked by Courier-IMAP, which may > not be anywhere the actual disk usage quota, for a variety of reasons, such > as the contents of the Trash folder. > > If you want to use Courier-IMAP's "soft" quotas, you cannot also use a hard, > kernel-based disk quota. For that matter, you should not be using filesystem > quotas with Courier-IMAP at all, for various reasons, and use Courier-IMAP's > soft quotas exclusively. >
I think I've mis-explained the issue. I'm actually using soft quotas, enforced by Postfix with its VDA patch, not filesystem quotas. What I ment when I mentioned the percentages are merely cyphers which I've calculated by hand, to check against the web-supplied quota values. Sorry for the confusion. I'll check the trash folder usage for those users. However, I can't understand the sudden drop and posterior rise of the soft-quota usage. If you could clarify this issue, I'll be very thankful. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Courier-imap mailing list > Courier-imap@lists.sourceforge.net > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap > > > Thanks, Luis -- ------------------------------------------------- GNU-GPL: "May The Source Be With You... Linux Registered User #448382. When I grow up, I wanna be like Theo... ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list Courier-imap@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
