On Saturday 19 July 2003 12:01, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: > so gee, did i really stump the stars on this one? nobody out there has > converted to domain quotas?
Very few, I'd bet. I took a look at the new domain soft quota code a few months ago (you might remember the heated discussion I had with the author), and finally came to the conclusion that this code is definately NOT ready for prime time. It's a valiant attempt, but it is buggy and fatally flawed in that it won't play nicely with maildir++ applications like sqwebmail, Courier-IMAP, or maildrop. Stick with hard filesystem domain quotas, install that qmailadmin patch that was floating around last year (it gave qmailadmin domain admins the ability to reconfigure user quotas under a set domain limit), or forget it. That's MHO, and I'm sticking to it. I think that if we really want domain quotas (and I, for one, do!) then we need to get together with Sam of Courier IMAP fame and create a new maildir+++ specification that will accomodate domain quotas. That way everyone can continue playing nice together. HTH. > > At 11:42 AM 7/18/2003, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: > >i'm about to upgrade from vpopmail 5.3.18 to 5.3.20. i'm also going to > >upgrade qmailadmin to the latest dev version. > > > >i have until now been running with user quotas set via vqadmin, so for > >example in vqadmin for domain example.com, i would fill in the quota field > > with > > > >50000000S,5000C > > > >and that would automatically set the quota that each user within that > >domain gets when the customer creates a new account. > > > >i now want to convert to domain quotas, wherein i give the domain a 'bulk' > >quota, then the customer can allocate individual user quotas within that > >total. but i'm a little confused about a couple of things: > > > >1. if i upgrade vpopmail with the --enable-domainquotas=y setting, will > >that then cause all already existing domains to 'break' - that is, will > >the existing per-user quota that's already in place suddenly become the > >domain quota, rendering the existing users quotas as consuming more than > >the global quota causing mail to bounce until i can update them by hand? > >(hope that makes sense) > > > >2. when setting the new domainquota, does it accept the quota value > >identically to the user quotas? the example in README.quotas simply says > >to add for example > > quota 50 > > > >to .qmailadmin-limits. if i have a domain with 20 users, 50meg quota per > >user, and 5000 message quota per user, would that mean i'd enter > > > > quota 1000000000S,100000C > > > >?? i presume that's not right (the math notwithstanding!) - i would > >presume that the domain quota is only for disk usage, not message counts. > > true? > > > >3. when implementing domain quotas - does it automatically change how the > >domain quota is interpreted in vqadmin? if i set the quota there, will > >that then become the domain quota, or is that field interpreted only as > >the user's default quota? > > > >4. the example shown from README.quota also differs from the format of an > >existing .qmailadmin-limits file on my system, e.g. > > > >cat .qmailadmin-limits > >maxpopaccounts: 51 > >maxaliases: 51 > >maxforwards: 51 > >maxautoresponders: 51 > >maxmailinglists: 51 > >default_quota: 100000000S,5000C > > > >is it true i'd add the domain quota as > > > > quota xxxxxxxxxxx > > > >rather than > > > > quota: xxxxxxxxxxx > > > >? > > > >lots of questions. sorry. hope i'm not retreading already answered stuff, > >but i'm a continuous subscriber for a long time, and i don't recall seeing > >these issues brought up. > > > >thanks. > > > > > > > >Paul Theodoropoulos > >http://www.anastrophe.com > > Paul Theodoropoulos > http://www.anastrophe.com -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net
