Re: quota problems ; overquota, quotawarning, etc

[Christian Schulte]

Markus Welsch wrote:

Hi all,

I've set up Cyrus 2.1 with quota. Now when there is no
quota reached already Cyrus accepts the message no
mater what size (even if it's 800% overquota).
Is there a way to reject the mails in such a case ?

No! A mailbox could never go over quota if such mails would be rejected! 
If you send one email being 800% over quota cyrus will deliver the mail 
and all next mails to the same mailbox now being over quota will be 
handled appropriate to your imapd.conf settings!

When are quota warnings send ? (Quotapercentage is
already reached but I didn't get a warning).
 

From imapd.conf manpage:

lmtp_over_quota_perm_failure: 0
         If enabled, lmtpd returns a permanent failure code when
         a  user's  mailbox  is  over  quota.   By  default, the
         failure is temporary, causing the MTA to queue the mes-
         sage and retry later.
quotawarn: 90
         The percent of quota utilization over which the  server
         generates warnings.
Some email clients show a dialogbox (like Outlook) where others do not 
(like Mozilla-Mail). That you did not get a warning right now can be 
caused of your MTA queueing the message caused by 
lmtp_over_quota_perm_failure not being set!

--Christian--