On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 03:57:26PM -0700, Tim Hasson wrote: > I am not setting the environment variable MAILDIRQUOTA for some reasons: > > 1. If user has access to their maildrop filter, or they have shell access, > then the MAILDIRQUOTA makes no sense.
My users use sqwebmail to access their filter file. I solved the overwriting problem by having maildrop first call a mailfilter-standard file. It includes the mailfilter-quota file, then includes the mailfilter-sqwebmail file. sqwebmail is free to edit it's own filter without messing with the quota settings. None of my users have shell access, so I don't have to worry about that. You could make the case that they could still edit their maildrop filter and remove the part where they lookup the quota, as well. > 2. I rather have all user information (including quotas) set in vpopmail's > mysql db, for administration reasons. I would too, and I do. The authoritative source of info is in the database, and when the users file gets created, the database is consulted for the proper value. When it's updated, a script goes back to update the users file. This also allows for delivery should the database go down, and is less database load in general. > 3. Eventually, I do not want to use maildrop at all, except maybe for > filtering. But I'd like to find a better solution. I find maildrop to work great for final delivery. I call a single program in the users .qmail file, and it takes care of everything. No forking, no external calls, no nothing. I figure if you're going to use it in one place, you might as well standardize and use it everywhere. It's easier to keep up with a single delivery agent than 3, especially when maildrop does everything you need. > And because I do not set the variable MAILDIRQUOTA, my mailfilter contains a > section like so: > > VHOME=`/home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's an external program that in my opinion doesn't need to be run for every single delivery. [...] > `/home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -Q [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's 2 extra programs per mail delivery, times how many ever mails a day you get. I guess maybe I'm anal about optimizing this sort of thing, but if I can avoid that (and I can) then I will (and I did). With regard to the url you posted in another message: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/9569/2001/4/0/5564545/ Sqwebmail does have support for updating maildirsize, I knew that, but setting MAILDIRSIZE in the generated filter file doesn't seem to work on my system. No biggy, I don't need it anyway =) Hope your problems are closer to being solved! --Doug
