On 25.8.2012, at 1.49, Sven Hartge wrote: >> How about just disabling the quota enforcing and doing a nightly run >> of some type of enforcing (sending notification email and/or disabling >> new mail delivery until user has more quota again)? > > As a last resort, yes. If possible, I'd like to keep the feedback about > mailbox size as direct as possible. > > Disabling an account only once per night might be acceptable, but the > reenabling of the account, once a user has freed some space, has to be > instant or I would get constant complains from the users (the ones with > the biggest mailboxes being the professors, which can be quite the pain > to work with, if they believe they don't get what they think they are > entitled to get).
You can use quota warning scripts to send warnings and enable account instantly when it goes under 100%. > So far, the description of the delete_to_trash plugin sounds promising, > because I can already ignore the Trash (or add to the total quota for > this folder and do a nightly expunge run for it), if only it would > compile for dovecot 2.1. I don't like the idea behind deleted_to_trash and won't offer any support for it if I don't have to.
