On Mon, Nov 26, 2007, Michael Monnerie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:

> 
> On Donnerstag, 22. November 2007 08:32 Vladimir Likhachev wrote:
>> Minimum user quota is (2,5 - 3)*max-mail-size... The better variant
>> is 10*max-mail-size with user alert at 89,9% - to store 1
>> max-mail-size message into user mailbox *after* alert.
> 
> Why, where's the problem? Our normal quota is 100MB per user, but there
> are some with 40MB limit. The max_message_size is 100MB, which is
> rarely used nowadays. If the mail system still accepts at least the
> last message before the quota is really full, even a 100MB message will
> fit in the 40MB quota of a user, and after he deletes this one message,
> he is free to receive mail again.
> 
> It's just a question of when you look for the quota limit:
> 1) before message insertion: it will be rejected while still 20MB quota
> are free
> 2) after message insertion: following e-mails will be rejected because
> quota is really full
> 
> I see 1) as more logical, because if a user has 10MB out of 1000MB free
> quota, and receives a message with 10MB+1Byte, why should that be
> rejected? It's better to accept until quota is really full.

DBMail will currently reject that 10.01 MB email when only 10 MB of quota
are available. This has been hard-coded policy for a very long time.
That's not to say that it is the absolute correct policy, just that, FYI,
it's always been this way.

> We're thinking of an SMS alert when quota is reached too, so that people
> know when they should check mail again.

Hook to call a script when quota is reached?

Aaron
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