Re: [EXIM] Quota on maildirs

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Jochen Topf
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Quota on maildirs
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Jochen Topf wrote:

> I am using qmail-style maildirs. Exim seems not to support quota for these.
> Anybody with a patch? Is it on the ToDo-List? Quota from the OS can't be
> used, because the pop users are not unix users (not in /etc/passwd).


The only way Exim could do this would be to scan the directory and
stat() every file in it each time, adding up the sizes, which seems
rather expensive. It could also be defeated if two simultaneous
deliveries were taking place.


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