Re: Per user exceptions to mailbox_size_limit

2011-01-16 Thread Wietse Venema
Eugene Vilensky: > My mailserver is dovecot, my users are all local system accounts, and > /var/spool mail contains mostly lightly-used mbox formatso I think > I will go with a filesystem quota? Postfix was designed to work with per-user file system quota for "system" accounts. Wietse

Re: Per user exceptions to mailbox_size_limit

2011-01-16 Thread Eugene Vilensky
> Use a real IMAP server backend, not /var/spool/mail. Cyrus, Dovecot, ... > offer a much more performant and manageable mail-store. If you need > quotas, (and even more so with per-user quoatas), don't waste time with > /var/spool/mail mboxes. This may be both true and fine advice, but is it real

Re: Per user exceptions to mailbox_size_limit

2011-01-14 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:28:16AM -0600, Eugene Vilensky wrote: > What would one recommend as the simplest solution to implementing a > per-user exception to mailbox_size_limit or alternative? Should one > be using quotas on my /var/spool/mail ? Use a real IMAP server backend, not /var/spool/ma

Per user exceptions to mailbox_size_limit

2011-01-14 Thread Eugene Vilensky
Hello, What would one recommend as the simplest solution to implementing a per-user exception to mailbox_size_limit or alternative? Should one be using quotas on my /var/spool/mail ? Thanks! -Ev