quota problems ; overquota, quotawarning, etc

[Markus Welsch]

> No! A mailbox could never go over quota if such mails would be rejected! 
> If you send one email being 800% over quota cyrus will deliver the mail 
> and all next mails to the same mailbox now being over quota will be 
> handled appropriate to your imapd.conf settings!

So I'd have to block something like that on the postfix site already then ? Is 
there a way to do so? I just know of a general limit ... but not on a user base!

>  From imapd.conf manpage:
> 
> lmtp_over_quota_perm_failure: 0
>          If enabled, lmtpd returns a permanent failure code when
>          a  user's  mailbox  is  over  quota.   By  default, the
>          failure is temporary, causing the MTA to queue the mes-
>          sage and retry later.
> 
> quotawarn: 90
>          The percent of quota utilization over which the  server
>          generates warnings.
> 
> Some email clients show a dialogbox (like Outlook) where others do not 
> (like Mozilla-Mail). That you did not get a warning right now can be 
> caused of your MTA queueing the message caused by 
> lmtp_over_quota_perm_failure not being set!

Okay I sent the message directly from the same server. So from the localhost, 
maybe I should have sent it from another host.


Kind Regards,

Markus