informing users about quotas

[Eric.Doutreleau at int-evry.fr]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, John A. Tamplin wrote:

> Quoting Hans Wilmer <lee at yun.yagibdah.de>:
> 
> > how can users securely be informed about their quota usage?
> > 
> > It seems to be left to the clients to ignore or to not ignore the
> > warnings from cyrus. Unfortunately, the mozilla client ignores the
> > warnings, and incoming mail would be silently rejected once the user
> > is over quota.
> > 
> > Is there a tool (for cyrus 1.5.x as comes with Debian Woody) that
> > could be run by cron to send the users who are about to reach their
> > quota limit a warning message?
> 
> What we do is run a perl script that parses the output of quota and sends email
> to everyone over quota.  Our custom delivery program recognizes the from address
> (our help desk) and sets the ignorequota option on the LMTP connection so the
> mail is delivered regardless.
> 
> Even before we had that running, the users who were over quota noticed pretty
> quickly they weren't getting mail and called the help desk :).
> 
> 

What is your custom delivery program?
I'm interested in that kind of solution but i didn't found yet a deliver 
program for postfix that use lmtp and can add the ignorequota option.


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