M. J. [Mike] OBrien wrote:
Hi Tommi:
MUA solution. DBMail IMAPD supports RFC 2087 IMAP quotas. A script
should not be hard to do but would be super expensive on large systems
to maintain a real time polling of quotas. That's why the protocol sets
out methods for doing this from the MUA so that it is done per-user on
an as-needed query/response from the MUA to the server.
AFAIK dbmail doesn't really support quota (doesn't do any calculations
per box) but still reports the capability. Thunderbird shows the quota
when you take properties from you inbox (works with cyrus) but when
connecting to dbmail, it just says 'quota not supported'
In my experience, users usually know when they are aproaching
excessive storage because for one thing, their account is sluggish. When
Thunderbird has 17000 headers to display, the user knows things are
getting FULL.. :o)
Yeah but my customers are not the sharpest knifes in the box so a couple
of times already they've run into their quota and then wonder why
they're not receiving any mail. Until their customer calls them that the
mail bounced with message 'your mailbox is full'
Perhaps you imagine something like GMAIL or HOTMAIL's slide-bar
indicators of how much mail is in storage vs quota. That would be a nice
desktop MUA feature. I have written proprietary front ends (web mail)
and socially engineered communications systems which have used a 'quota
report' just as does the Yahoo and Hotmail GUIs. I can well see why it
is not a popular feature for mail clients.
Not really. I'm not such a huge fan of webmail. I do give it out for
those challenged people taking vacation in Bahamas and want to check
their mail from the nearest internet cafe...
DbMailAdministrator http://www.dbma.ca enables Administrators to
spot over-quota users in a heartbeat and then send the user a message or
freeze the account.
Is this a new feature? :) I'm running v2.3.3 on that server... should I
read the docs?
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br,
Tommi
