On 3/12/2013 11:30 PM, Patrick Joy wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > I have been putting off an upgrade as I need to upgrade the complete OS > which is not a trivial task unfortunately but is inevitable.
Debian is designed for rolling upgrades, thus Ubuntu should be as well. They're painless on Debian so I would assume the same for Ubuntu. Which begs the question: why have not been doing rolling upgrades given your platform is specifically designed for such a model? > I may need to setup a nightly cron job to check for files bigger than > xmb in the mail store for now. Probably a good idea. As well as educating the user who attached a 4GB file. That's just plain nuts and smacks of ignorance. Honestly I'm surprised Outlook didn't crash when attaching such a file. -- Stan > On 13/03/13 15:07, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 3/12/2013 9:55 PM, Patrick Joy wrote: >> >>> Would appreciate some advice on this issue. >>> >>> I'm running dovecot version 1.0.10 on ubuntu 8.04 LTS. >> Ancient and no longer supported. Upgrade to the latest 1.2.x or 2.x >> that you can get from your distro ecosystem, or install from source if >> necessary. >> >>> Recently a user created a draft email in their client (outlook) and >>> added a 4GB attachment. The email was uploaded to the draft imap folder >>> on the server. After this the client would then go into a endless >>> synchronisation loop every time outlook was opened. For example in the >>> most recent case 400GB of data was downloaded to the client when the >>> user left outlook synchronising for 5 days. >> First, beat the user with a heavy clue stick whilst educating said user >> about sane attachment sizes, and use of things like FTP, burned DVD, >> thumb drives, etc, for large file transfers. >> >>> I know this may be a bug with the client or client os however I would >>> like to know if there is a way to limit the size of individual emails >>> that can be stored in the imap store to prevent users creating huge >>> drafts. There is no reason they should need an email draft of this size >>> as it can never be sent through SMTP. >> You cannot limit the size of individual emails written to IMAP folders >> AFAIK, but you can limit the size of folders. See: >> >> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota >> >
