> > I'm a little unclear about the differences between the Quota and > Accounting modules -- both appear to allow rejects to be done based on > message counts; but the accounting module seems to store its data in a > different way..... >
Quota is a moving window, dynamic. Accounting is records which are updated for time periods. > I'm trying to quota outbound email (successfully in 2.0.10 using quota > module)... do I need to continue using that, or will switching to the > Accounting module still do everything that the Quota module does....? > If you want to limit the amount of mail for a time period, you'd use Quota. If you want to bill a client for the amount of mails they receive or traffic used on the SMTP side, Accounting is what you're after. > > > How much historical data does the accounting module hold? Beyond the > configuration part of webui - I couldn't see any other tools for it; > are there any command-line tools? Should I just be building db queries > on accounting-tracking? > Quotas is cleaned up automagically by the cbpadmin tool. Accounting records are kept indefinitely until you remove them manually from the DB. -N
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