On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 15:26 +0200, mail...@securitylabs.it wrote: > > The following patches will limit maildir folders to 4000 messages on > > Dovecot 2.0.* and 2.1.* > > > Hi, sorry for the dumb question, but isn't there already in Dovecot a > way to limit the number of messages? > > Something like: > > quota_rule = *:messages=4000
This limits the total number of messages for user to 4000. The patch was about limiting per-mailbox limit. The users can work around the per-mailbox limit by moving messages to other mailboxes.