On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Dean Brooks wrote:
> > We just switched to Exim and it doesn't seem to handle mailbox quotas
> > in the same way we are used to.
> >
> > On our old server a message was rejected only if the current mailbox
> > was _already_ over quota. So a person with a 10MB quota and an empty
> > mailbox could still receive a 20MB message, but as soon as the quota
> > is exceeded all subsequent messages are deferred or rejected.
>
> Hmmm. In this case, the 10MB quota really isn't a quota at all then.
> Using the same logic, a person with a 10MB quota with an empty mailbox
> could receive a 10,000MB message (given available disk space and the
> lack of an max-message-size limits). Not really a quota limit, is it?
Actually, that is exactly how Cyrus handles quotas.
> Adding an option to permit Exim to use this behavior seems a bit esoteric,
> if not altogether unreasonable.
>
> Wouldn't it be easier to just hack the source code in appendfile.c (or
> whevered) yourself?
>
> -- Regards, Dean
> Dean A. Brooks
> IgLou Internet Services, Inc. Voice: (502) 966-3848
> Louisville, Kentucky USA (800) 436-4456
Tom
