Hi,
I am not facing this type of problem for the past 5 years
in send mail. But i frequently get the error in QMT
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Eric Shubert <e...@shubes.net> wrote:
> Quotas are broken in the current QMT. They should work properly when
> vpopmail-toaster-5.4.33-1.4.0 is released, which might be in a month or
> two. Please check the devel list if you're interested in testing this.
> Bharath already has some source rpms available there.
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
> On 03/02/2012 10:49 PM, rajeshrudramani wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> When we login into qmailadmin for that user below error
>> is showing user quota is in minus.
>>
>>
>>
>> Email account Used/Quota(MB)
>> zzz - 2048/unlimited
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rajesh
>>
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>> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Dan McAllister <q...@it4soho.com
>> <mailto:q...@it4soho.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/2/2012 9:37 AM, Bharath Chari wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday 02 March 2012 07:45 PM, rajeshrudramani wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In qmail single user when touches 2GB mail box size
>>>> was showing IMAP error(but user didn't have quota restriction) .
>>>> For many user getting this error in webmail.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Let's be clear here - in QMT there is no limit to the size of a
>> mailbox, except for the storage allocation on the filesystem in
>> which it is stored (or the quota established). This is because the
>> Mailbox in QMT is NOT A SINGLE FILE - it is a folder, with
>> subfolders used to organize things, and each message being a
>> separate file in one of those sub-folders. These are called Maildirs.
>>
>> THIS IS CONCEPTUALLY DIFFERENT from other mail systems, *_esp.
>> Exchange_*, where a Mailbox is in fact a database that is stored
>> locally on the server's fileystem. On those systems, you often run
>> into file size limitations (like 2GB for older, 32-bit Exchange
>> servers). Some other UNIX-based mail servers also use a
>> database-type of format, usually MBOX (which is terrible for today's
>> kinds of e-mail), but also sometimes MySQL.
>>
>> So why is the user having a problem? The issue with very large
>> mailboxes in this case is being caused by the CLIENT software (or,
>> possibly, as was mentioned earlier) by the Courier IMAP server.
>>
>> HOWEVER, if you're having trouble in QMT (and assuming courier-imap
>> & squirrelmail), and the issue is the number of messages (not really
>> size-related), then you can do what I did for a client who assumed
>> that, like when he ran into this problem on Exchange, it would take
>> many hours of compressing, repairing, and/or re-indexing to fix...
>> My fix (outlined below) took 10 minutes total!
>>
>> I simply went into his Maildir inbox and created new Maildir folders
>> for each year (he had 8 years worth of e-mails). (NOTE: These were
>> Maildir folders, so each had a cur, new, and tmp sub-folder).
>> Lastly, I used the find command to move everything dated 2005 from
>> the Inbox cur folder to the new 2005 sub-folder (again, actually to
>> the /cur /subdirectory).. then I did it again for 2006 and so on up
>> to 2010... I left him with only 2011 and 2012 messages in his actual
>> inbox, then forced Courier to rebuild the message indicies for each
>> (by removing the old indices and re-accessing from the client).
>> Solved his Squirrelmail problem instantly... (NOTE: Outlook creates
>> a pseudo-PST file for each IMAP account -- and it being a PST file,
>> it has the limits of a PST file in that version of outlook... so
>> this solution may not work for everyone in every "giant inbox"
>> situation...)
>>
>> One final note - for this same user, I had to do the same to his
>> Sent folder -- similiarly HUGE after 8 years of use!
>>
>> I hope this helps some...
>>
>> Dan
>> IT4SOHO
>>
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>> RAJESH.R,
>> VPSADMIN,
>> WEBINDIA INTERNET SERVICES PVT LTD.
>>
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