Unlimited mailbox problem

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 19:50 +0200, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:46:34AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> The whole point is that quotaroot at "user" level is purely a convention
> and not enshrined anywhere - so short of keeping sums of all subordinate
> mailboxes at every level (the top would be very locky) there's no
> sensible place to keep it other than quota_mailbox_used on each mailbox.

If the size of each mailbox was available summing the values would be
pretty trivial for the admin / utility.  It is summing up the mailbox
content that is tedious.

> > I agree it would be very useful if the server kept capacity information
> > on-hand regardless of quota settings.  I'd like to see a "real size" and
> > "allocated size" values.  For example I'd like to know the size
> > including delayed-expunge messages.
> Hmm... interesting.  That would actually not be too hard to do.

Cool.  I opened a bug (bug#3562)
<https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3562>



> > On the other hand, putting on my sys-admin hat, is #2 a real situation?
> > If madly growing allocation is a potential issue it would see the
> > solution is a very large quota and to track some threshold of that
> > quota.
> Yeah, exactly.  That's the sane workaround.  Give everyone a 100Gb quota
> and relax.