reading quotas

Thu May 13 02:00:14 EDT 2004

Colin Bruce <ccx004 at coventry.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> This may be a stupid question but is there any reason why someone should
> not be able to obtain their own e-mail quota. If I do something like
>
> telnet imaphost 143
> . login ccx004 password
> . getquota user.ccx004
>
> I get "NO Permission denied"

GETQUOTA is reserverd to a user with admin privilege ("admins:" in 
imapd.conf). Use GETQUOTAROOT instead to get your quota usage:

telnet server 143
. login myusername mypasswort
. getquotaroot INBOX
* QUOTAROOT INBOX INBOX
* QUOTA INBOX (STORAGE 519605 3145728)
. OK Completed

Pascal
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