Re: informing users about quotas
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, John A. Tamplin wrote: Quoting Hans Wilmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: how can users securely be informed about their quota usage? It seems to be left to the clients to ignore or to not ignore the warnings from cyrus. Unfortunately, the mozilla client ignores the warnings, and incoming mail would be silently rejected once the user is over quota. Is there a tool (for cyrus 1.5.x as comes with Debian Woody) that could be run by cron to send the users who are about to reach their quota limit a warning message? What we do is run a perl script that parses the output of quota and sends email to everyone over quota. Our custom delivery program recognizes the from address (our help desk) and sets the ignorequota option on the LMTP connection so the mail is delivered regardless. Even before we had that running, the users who were over quota noticed pretty quickly they weren't getting mail and called the help desk :). What is your custom delivery program? I'm interested in that kind of solution but i didn't found yet a deliver program for postfix that use lmtp and can add the ignorequota option. -- Eric Doutreleau I.N.T | Tel : +33 (0) 160764687 9 rue Charles Fourier | Fax : +33 (0) 160764321 91011 Evry France | email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: informing users about quotas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is your custom delivery program? I'm interested in that kind of solution but i didn't found yet a deliver program for postfix that use lmtp and can add the ignorequota option. It is a small perl program that uses Net::LMTP (hacked to support authentication and the ignorequota option), which also does things like strip nulls and reformat envelope from addresses that contain quotes. I'll be happy to send it and the patches to Net::LMTP if you are interested. Beware since it uses a TCP socket rather than a Unix socket authentication is required and performance is slightly impacted. It also has code to proxy the LMTP connection to multiple destination mail servers, which we used along with perdition to transition accounts one at a time. -- John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931
informing users about quotas
Hi, how can users securely be informed about their quota usage? It seems to be left to the clients to ignore or to not ignore the warnings from cyrus. Unfortunately, the mozilla client ignores the warnings, and incoming mail would be silently rejected once the user is over quota. Is there a tool (for cyrus 1.5.x as comes with Debian Woody) that could be run by cron to send the users who are about to reach their quota limit a warning message? GH
Re: informing users about quotas
Quoting Hans Wilmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: how can users securely be informed about their quota usage? It seems to be left to the clients to ignore or to not ignore the warnings from cyrus. Unfortunately, the mozilla client ignores the warnings, and incoming mail would be silently rejected once the user is over quota. Is there a tool (for cyrus 1.5.x as comes with Debian Woody) that could be run by cron to send the users who are about to reach their quota limit a warning message? What we do is run a perl script that parses the output of quota and sends email to everyone over quota. Our custom delivery program recognizes the from address (our help desk) and sets the ignorequota option on the LMTP connection so the mail is delivered regardless. Even before we had that running, the users who were over quota noticed pretty quickly they weren't getting mail and called the help desk :). -- John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator
