At 10:55 AM 4/30/2013 -0500, you wrote:
The administrator of the mail server has the authority to set email quotas
on a per user basis. In my system, which runs Fedora, Postfix, Dbmail,
and PostgreSQL, setting the quota to 0 allows a user to have an unlimited
amount of space on the mail server for emails. Otherwise, quotas on each
user account is set to some reasonable amount of server disk space.
Once a user hits his quota limit, the user is required to clean up his
emails in order to continue using his email account on the mail server.
You might talk to your administrator to see if he/she would remove quotas
on your email account(s) by setting them to zero, or raise the quota limit
on the account(s) over quota.
I have administrative access to set quotas; I can use CPanel to do that for
my domain. I do set quotas on most accounts as we have limited space, for
each megabyte of which we have to pay. It is better to cause one mailbox to
overflow than to potentially flood the entire domain space allocation and
bring all email access to a screaming halt.
Several accounts are departmental; intended for access by all department
members. Therefore they have to be set to retain email on the server for
some number of days to ensure that all users can download them. Other
accounts are used by the same person on multiple clients at multiple
locations; all but one of those locations must retain email for some number
of days.
In that particular scenario (single user, multiple locations), webmail
could be used, but I have yet to see a webmail interface that isn't slow,
clunky, and somewhat error-ridden, even when used on a high-bandwidth
service. Fat-client email applications are just faster, more flexible, and
more reliable.
Thanks.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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