Mark wrote:
>
>I'm starting to suspect that the 'quota' setting only considers the
>contents of the directory specified in the 'directory' setting, not the
>user's total disk usage on the file system of the 'directory' - can
>someone confirm this for me?
>
Pasting the relevant bits of your transport would help a bit, but
basically yes. This is all rather well documented, too. Exim
uses the actually used bytes instead of the FS blocks. In a maildir
scenario it will take all the files and subdirectories in that
mail directory into account. If you have a OS/FS based quota in place
see Dan Egli's reply, but if you want to use exim's quota mechanism
make sure that you don't have FS quotas on that user/maildir or that
those quotas are 50-100% higher than what exim is set to. YMMV.
>Secondly, is there a sure fire way to trigure the quota_warn_message? I
>really want to test this out, but just can't get it to go.
>
Make sure the "directory" is over the threshold (but below the total
quota permitted) and try to deliver a mail. Use "du --apparent-size"
if your du has this flag to determine that information. Plain du will
always be larger (easily 50% with maildir, small mails, 4KB blocks)
than the actual bytes used (which is what exim quite correctly counts).
>Lastly, if a user gets one quota_warn_message and then drops back below
>their quota, will they get another message if they go over again? Does
>exim keep this data in a hints db of some type/can I look at when a log of
>when a user went over?
>
They will get warned again, as they should. The logs will report when
a user really went over quota, they don't really show the insertion of
the warning message specifically. However it will show up in the logs
somewhat like this:
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2004-06-16 16:39:52 1BaV1U-0004EY-81 <= <> R=1BaV1T-0004EQ-Va U=root P=local S=571
2004-06-16 16:39:52 1BaV1U-0004EY-81 => /mail/path/to/user <user@???> R=ldap_local T=address_dir S=634
2004-06-16 16:39:52 1BaV1U-0004EY-81 Completed
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Regards,
Christian Balzer
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