On 2011-03-14 12:04:49 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Vincent Lefevre put forth on 3/14/2011 11:17 AM: > > On 2011-03-14 11:04:02 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Vincent Lefevre put forth on 3/14/2011 9:34 AM: > >> > >>> But there's also mailbox_size_limit to track. Wouldn't it be better > >>> to set both mailbox_size_limit and virtual_mailbox_limit to much > >>> larger values (or zero) and modify message_size_limit only, so that > >>> one can focus to one parameter only? > >> > >> I already answered this question, interestingly, just yesterday: > > > > No, you didn't. > > My answer starts 2 (non-blank) lines below. How can you state this in > direct contradiction to the record?
Because I read it before answering here. > >> Stan Hoeppner put forth on 3/13/2011 7:52 AM: > >> > >>>> If you use virtual_mailbox_limit with strictly maildir mailboxes, you > >>>> may as well set message_size_limit=0 and leave it alone, so you only > >>>> have one setting to keep track of. > >> > >> You may be better off forgetting all of this nonsense, and implementing > >> real quota management in your LDA or filesystem, as was already > >> suggested by multiple people, including myself. > >> > >> Is there something preventing you from doing so? > > > > I'm not interested in filesystem quotas (at least for the moment), > > just to increase the default message size limit. > > Your original question of 3/12 was about mailbox size limits, not > message size limits. My original question was whether virtual_mailbox_limit affects the maildir format or not. Just that. > > Quotas by client IP or something like that could even be better, > > but I don't think this was suggested, and how can this be done? > > Exactly what are you asking here? Are you trying to limit what emails > come into your system via the internet, or limiting how much data is > written to user mail storage? I'd like something like that: each IP is allowed to send me up to 50 MB per day. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
