--- Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bubuk Gabrok writes: > > > I have one server that is still running the > > courier-imap version 1.6.2 over qmail-ldap. All > > running fine until recently when I noticed that > *some* > > user mailboxes grew beyond the quota limit that I > have > > imposed. > > > > The limit is 30MB and there are many currently > having > > mailboxes at 40+ MB, 50+ MB and some even 150MB ! > > > > Was there a bug in that version that I have missed > > reading in the archive? Please help. > > Courier-IMAP has nothing to do with mail delivery. > The only thing that > Courier-IMAP will do, quota-wise, is to update the > quota to reflect any > mail expunge from the mailbox, or, very rarely -- > when new messages are > added via the IMAP COPY or APPEND command (which > would get rejected if the > new messages would put the maildir over quota). > > If a mailbox is over quota, obviously the mail > delivery agent is the one > that has to reject all new mail deliveries to the > account, since the IMAP > server has nothing to do with new mail delivery. > All an IMAP server does is > provide access to existing mail in existing mail > folders. In your case, > it's Qmail that delivers mail to the maildir. I do > not know if the > qmail-ldap mutation checks maildir quotas, you'll > have to ask on the > qmail-ldap mailing list. Vanilla qmail does not, > since it's Courier that > introduced the concept of maildir quotas. > > Since you have not mentioned whether or not you've > manually configured Qmail > to use the deliverquota utility from the > Courier-IMAP source base (which > does not get installed by default), one will have to > assume that this is not > the case. You would've obviously mentioned such an > important detail, if you > did. Therefore, it's almost a certainty that you > never had the maildir > quota properly checked, when delivering new mail, > all this time. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get > the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief > surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV> _______________________________________________ > Courier-imap mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap >
Thank you Sam. I'll see what I can gather from the qmail-ldap folks. -- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
