Hello, If this seems to be a useful feature, perhaps the unix soft/hard quota model could be used. Ie. you can exceed your soft limit for a specific amount of time until you have to drop back below it, but you can never exceed the hard limit.
---- Original Message ---- From: Brian Winkers <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dbmail] Dbmail quota in version 2.0 Sent: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 00:53:41 -0600 > Whether the user uses the INBOX or a created folder to store their email > the cost to you is the same. > > You remove a certain amount of utility from the product (IMAP mail > storage) in that they user can't easily organize their data but you > aren't doing anything to limit the amount of mail they actually store on > your system. > > I'm "guessing" your goal is to let them receive large amounts of email > to deal with sudden increases w/o continually providing storage space > for every email they ever get.. > Perhaps deleting old emails, large emails older than "x" or something > like that might work. Especially if this was ONLY triggered when their > mail is at or above quota. > > That isn't really something I would expect from my mail software so much > as standalone app or script. > I'm not saying dbmail shouldn't do this, just that its not an intrinsic > part of mail services. > I would think a third party app would almost always provide more options. > > Brian Winkers > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ultri.com > > Jacques Beaudoin wrote: > > >Want im trying to say is that i would like to have the option not to impose > >any quota restriction for my users receiving there mail > >but i would like to impose quota restriction for the amount > >of mail they archive with imap. > > > >I did that with uw-imap by not setting linux quota > >restriction on one 200gig disk drive with the mount point > >/var/spool/mail (the inboxs of all my users). > > > >And by setting quota restriction > >on a other 200gig drive with the mount point > >/home/users_directory (the folders of all my users). > > > >That way i made shure that all my users would never drop any > >incomming mail because of a lack of space. > > > >Thanks > >Jacques > > > > > >Selon Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >>What's the difference of users storing their mail in inbox rather than > >>some other folder ? > >> > >> > >>Jacques Beaudoin wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Could a parameter in the dbmail.conf file > >>> > >>>be set in dbmail 2.0 so quota would only apply to users folders > >>> > >>>excluding the inbox. > >>> > >>>Then i could let all my users receive all the mail they want but > >>> > >>>not keep all the mail they want !!!!! > >>> > >>>Thanks > >>> > >>>Jacques Beaudoin > >>>Responsable des accès internet / Internet security manager > >>>Commission scolaire de la Pointe de l'Ile / School board > >>>Montréal, Québec, Canada > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Dbmail mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > -- End Original Message -- -- Jesse Norell [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not my email address; change "administrator" to my first name. --
