Eli wrote:
>Dan Egli wrote:
>>> What I'm trying to achieve is to have Exim take the whole current
>>> directory into account for quota calculations (and not just the
>>> "inbox" file) when doing single file mailbox deliveries.
>>> Of course this would be lethal in a /var/spool/mail/user scenario,
>>> but in this case we're talking about a /home/user/mail/inbox type
>>> setup and all the other IMAP folders will be in the same directory
>>> as the inbox (and thusly should be accounted towards the quota).
>>>
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>> What's wrong with a FileSystem quota? If all users will have the>Eli.
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>> mail in /home/user/mail/* then why not setup a quota on /home where
>> the user gets X amount of disk space.
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>Probably the same reason that many others can't use filesystem quotas - if
>you're serving email to clients on servers which are strictly for email
>only, or even better - in an environment where you may have clustered
>systems and store your data on a separate server than the actual mail
>server, you wouldn't even consider creating an account for each and every
>single email user. You'd probably cause problems with your /etc/passwd file
>being too big or something!
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We're not even having an /etc/password file and the /home/user/mail/ bit
was an example to clarify the concept, but yes, Eli just very well
described why this is not an option for me.
>The solution is a filesystem *like* quota system which works by directory
>and not individual users. I wish this was an option when using system
>quotas because it's just as useful as implementing per user quotas.
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Yes, I've been missing this kind of feature as well.
Alas it would not be a real solution for my case as:
a) I still want Exim to know about and react to (by sending that warning
message) quota status, plus
b) the file-system this is on doesn't even support regular quotas. ;)
Regards,
Christian Balzer
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