----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Shupp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] new quota support question
> On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 01:40 PM, Brian Kolaci wrote: > > > I guess I wasn't explicit enough. I assumed people already > > knew how the quota's are stored. The "user quota" for vpopmail > > is stored in the pw_shell attribute of the vqpasswd structure. > > Where this information is stored (db, cdb, file) doesn't matter. > > You use an API to get at it. In courier, a different place is used. > > The "domain quota" is now currently stored in the qmailadmin limits > > information, which is now retrieved using the vget_limits() function. > > Again, where it is actually stored doesn't matter. > > The important thing to remember is that Sam's approach now is to set > the quota with maildirmake -q. The quota is stored ONLY in the > maildirsize file itself. It is the responsibility of any Maildir++ > aware applications to honor the quota established in that file. > > I only used pw_shell for backwards compatibility with the old vpopmail > quotas. OK OK. Brian had me thinking that the quota was stored in a database with all of that talk about pw_shell and limits API calls. I now see that (as I originally thought), the quota is actually stored in the 'maildirsize' file. (I opened it up and looked at it in my maildir) I haven't read enough about 'maildirmake -q', so I don't know if that program actually makes USE of the quota stored in 'maildirsize', but at least now I know that the 'user' quota CAN be read by third party programs. SO: Would anyone be opposed to moving the 'domain' quota out of the qmailadmin limits file (I'm assuming it's stored there since Brian said it was) and into a separate 'domainquota' file? We could then add a line to each user's 'maildirsize' file that gives the file location of 'domainquota', and I could talk with Sam, or write a patch that allows courier-IMAP and maildrop to use the 'domainquota' file as well as the 'maildirsize' file if it exists in the 'maildirsize' file. This would instantly solve my problem with maildrop and courier not being compatible with the new domain wide quotas, AND it would make Sam more likely to accept the code since it doesn't deal with vpopmail specific files like the qmailadmin limits file. Is there ANYTHING I am still wrong about? Does the above make sense? What do you think, Bill? Thanks for having patience with me! > > Regards, > > Bill Shupp > > >
