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Author: Jasen Betts
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim maildirsize quota calculation in the face of symlinks
On 2022-02-10, Maarten van Baarsel via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
> Currently, I'm also using a plugin in dovecot:
>
> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailboxAlias
>
> However, this plugin solves the alias problem with a symlink in the
> Maildir directory, which makes Exim count the mails twice when the
> appendfile transport is calculating quota sizes.


Have you considered using OS-provided per-user disk quotas instead?

https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/step-step-using-user-quotas-linux/

this is just an idea, I don't know how well dovecot and exim interact with
quota.

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Jasen.