On 11 May 11, Matt Brookings wrote: > On 05/11/2011 04:49 AM, Hartmut Wernisch | Domaintechnik.at wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I have installed vpopmail 5.4.33 and I plan to use quotas with vusaged. > > > > After some research I found that the quota warning messages are sent > > once in 24 hours (except the Maildir/quotawarn file is deleted > > manually). > > > > Therefor, the owner of the mailbox gets a warning mail, remove some > > mails within the 24 hours and did not recognize if the mailbox is over > > quota until the 24 hours are over. Even worse, he will think that he has > > solved the problem while new mails are bouncing. > > > > In my opinion it would be better if vpopmail removes the quotawarn file > > if the user is below the quota warning threshold. Vpopmail anyway hast > > to query if the mailbox is over quota on new mails so why not delete an > > existing > > quotawarn file if the mailbox is below the threshold? > > It is done this way because quota usage percentages can easily stay the > same by regular usage. A user gets some mail, deletes some mail. The > usage percentage won't change much. > > If you set a threshold at which the quota warning is sent, and the > user's regular usage keeps hitting above and below this area, the user > will receive many warnings. > > What you really mean to do is adjust how often the user can receive a > warning. You can find this hardcoded setting in vdelivermail.c around > line 1150 in the deliver_quota_warning function.
Yes that makes sense! Thank you for the explanation. So I think in my case the best ist to set the warning threshold lower than the default value (90%), because we want to use small quotas values for the mailboxes. Thanks! Hartmut !DSPAM:4dcab18832711828715287!
