[Dovecot] Quota warning not generated

Doug Council dcouncil at nethere.com
Sat May 26 01:53:22 EEST 2007


On Fri, 25 May 2007, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> As I wrote the patch, I do. ;-)

Always good to go to the source :)

> The warning is triggered when the free space goes below the specified value, 
> not when the used space goes above. Hence, if you have no limit on the 
> message count, no warning on the message count will ever be executed.

Fair enough, I knew I wasn't setting a message count quota, but I didn't 
realize it was smart enough to know that.

> Moreover, if the free space is already below the specified value, no warning 
> is triggered. It is only triggered when a message *brings* the free space 
> below the specified value.

I had it reversed and correcting the percentage to be how much of the 
storage quota is left, things worked as they should.

Thanks for clarification.

-Doug


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