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.
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-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
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Dan McAllister <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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
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