[Dovecot] Limiting size of stored emails

2013-03-12 Thread Patrick Joy
Hi, Would appreciate some advice on this issue. I'm running dovecot version 1.0.10 on ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Recently a user created a draft email in their client (outlook) and added a 4GB attachment. The email was uploaded to the draft imap folder on the server. After this the client would then go

Re: [Dovecot] Limiting size of stored emails

2013-03-12 Thread Patrick Joy
wrote: On 3/12/2013 9:55 PM, Patrick Joy wrote: Would appreciate some advice on this issue. I'm running dovecot version 1.0.10 on ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Ancient and no longer supported. Upgrade to the latest 1.2.x or 2.x that you can get from your distro ecosystem, or install from source if nece

Re: [Dovecot] Limiting size of stored emails

2013-03-13 Thread Patrick Joy
On 13/03/13 16:28, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/12/2013 11:30 PM, Patrick Joy wrote: Thanks for the reply. I have been putting off an upgrade as I need to upgrade the complete OS which is not a trivial task unfortunately but is inevitable. Debian is designed for rolling upgrades, thus Ubuntu

Re: [Dovecot] Limiting size of stored emails

2013-03-13 Thread Patrick Joy
Thanks great advice, while I don't have the resources to go colo at the moment a dedicated server would work much better, and I will start writing a TOS! On 13/03/13 20:06, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/13/2013 3:38 AM, Patrick Joy wrote: On 13/03/13 16:28, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/12/20