Re: [Exim] suffix-to-folder delivery

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Author: Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] suffix-to-folder delivery
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Kirill Miazine wrote:

> > new maildir as subfolder. Specifically, you can't get exim to create
> > the necessary "maildirfolder" file in the subfolder between creation
> > and delivery. This means that Exim will only check that particular
> > maildir folder when it calculates quota usage.


> Ask Martin to upgrade to Exim 4 (or even better - do that yourself). The
> appendfile transport has an option called quota_directory (the transport
> that I posted to the list has it commented out):
>
>     This option defines the directory to check for quota purposes when
>     delivering into individual files. The default is the delivery
>     directory, or, if a file called maildirfolder exists in a maildir
>     directory, the parent of the delivery directory.

>
> You will benefit a lot from upgrading. :)


We're running Exim 4 on the servers where this has been a problem for us (bzzzt
doesn't use maildirs, or quotas).

As for quota_directory - it's just what I was looking for, I can't believe I
missed it! Thanks.

-- Daniel