Is the hard limit on mail box quota (still) 2 Gigs?

Blake Hudson blake at ispn.net
Wed Feb 6 16:44:09 EST 2008



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Subject: Re: Is the hard limit on mail box quota (still) 2 Gigs?
From: Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com>
To: Steven Truong <midair77 at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:20:18 PM
> On Feb 6, 2008 7:30 PM, Steven Truong <midair77 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi, all.  I would like to know if the hard limit on the quota is still
>> 2 Gigs in some of the latest versions or user absolutely can not have
>> their box gone over 2 Gig.
>>
>> I am using an old version of Cyrus Imap on SLES 9 (2.2.3-83.25) and I
>> do not think that there is a newer version available for this SLES 9.
>> Are there anyway to increase the quota to let user actually stores
>> more than 2 Gig of data? Available patches?  Or just compile and
>> install the latest version (that already fixed this limit)?
>>     
>
> You can remove any quota limit for some of your users!
>
>   
To expand on this, the quota limit of 2/4 GB was only a problem that 
took place during the quota checks.
By removing a user's quota file, they can effectively pass the 2GB 
limit. I believe the hard limit for Cyrus 2.2 was 4GB. I have 
successfully used mailboxes as large as 8GB on Cyrus 2.3

-Blake
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