[Dovecot] Dovecot Postfix Quota Policy Service

Ulrich Zehl ulrich-dovecot at topfen.net
Sat May 4 20:25:30 EEST 2013


On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 06:02:36PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Am 04.05.2013 09:12, schrieb Noel Butler:
> > The quota-grace I think was only bit not backported, is that right? 
> > Did Timo do or announce plan to do this, or not happening for 2.1 only
> > 2.2?
> 
> at my last knowledge it wasnt backported and it will never done, so with
> most setups, quota policy service in 2.1 is more or less useless in
> reality, cause lda or lmtp will do the bounce job, so mailboxes mostly
> may go never "over quota"

I haven't actually tried it yet, so this is just from looking at the source
code: The policy service will reject (most) messages that would put a
mailbox over the quota limit in both 2.1 and 2.2, won't it?
That still seems very useful, compared to bouncing it later.


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