cyrus imap quota

[Holm Kapschitzki]

Simon Matter schrieb:
>> Holm Kapschitzki schrieb:
>>> on my debian box running cyrus imap, most of the postboxes have a quota
>>> of 100 MB configured. The info is stored in a textfile. On the first
>>> line there is the currently quota and on the second line there is the
>>> real hardquota, for example 100000 (100 MB)
>>>
>>> Its possible to stop the cyrus mailserver und replace the second line
>>> with another value without breaking something  for all the defined
>>> postboxes?
> 
> Yes that's possible but you should use Cyrus quota command instead which
> can be done while Cyrus is up and running. And note that quota information
> can be stores in other database formats which will make the method above
> unusable.
> 


thx for answer. But i had to change over 5 thousend mailboxes. so its
impossible to change this boxes step by step. Thats the reason, i asked
for changing directly in the textfile. But you say thats impossible
cause it can be stores in other database formats. Do i have another
possibility?

Holm