Courier Imap and Quotas?

[Robert Meyer]

Doesn't matter to me.  It was a mental exercise just to see if I could do it
:-)  I think I knocked it out in less than 1/2 hour.  I wrote it considering
the absence of an activated quota system if you wanted to keep track of your
Email user's usage.  I know that Peter is probably grabbing up the scripts and
is going to call me to activate them on his system :-)

Cheers!

Bob

--- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
> Ok not sure if I'm going to actually use any of this was just curious, 
> it's for the manager types to decide.
> 
> Thanks
> Justin
> 
> 
> Robert Meyer wrote:
> 
> >Oops, dropped a piece of the code out...  Revised piece below...
> >
> >--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Why not just whip up a script to check the sizes of the users' directories
> >>and
> >>send them hate mail when it gets above a certain size?  Judicious use of
> 'du
> >>-sk' can give you all sorts of information and you can write something that
> >>checks to see if the output of the 'du' commands yields something over your
> >>limit and send an Email to the user (and a summary to the admin) each
> night. 
> >>If it's just single mbox type files, you can use the output of 'du', 'ls
> -s',
> >>'find', just to name a few.  Actually, 'find' might do it like this:
> >>----- start of /usr/sbin/mailquotacheck -----
> >>#/bin/sh
> >>#
> >># script to find all of the Email files bigger than 5 meg and mail the user
> >># and the admin
> >>#
> >>
> >># start a file with people over quota to send to admin
> >>touch /var/tmp/quota$$
> >>
> >># go to the place to start the festivities
> >>cd /var/spool/mail
> >>
> >># locate every file here over 5 meg in size
> >>find . -size +5120k -exec '/usr/sbin/quotamail' /var/tmp/quota$$ '{}' ';'
> >>
> >>/bin/mail -s "mail quota statistics" root < /var/tmp/quota$$
> >>/bin/rm -f /var/tmp/quota$$
> >>----- end of /usr/sbin/mailquotacheck -----
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >----- start of /usr/sbin/quotamail -----
> >#!/bin/sh
> >echo "You are currently over quota on your Email account" >
> >/var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >echo "We have a limit of 5120 kilobytes per account" >> /var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >echo -n "You are currently using: " >> /var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >mailsize=`/bin/ls -s /var/spool/mail/$2 | awk '{print $1};'`
> >echo $mailsize kilobytes of disk space >> /var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >echo >>/var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >echo Please clean up your Email space >>/var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >echo >>/var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >echo Thank you >>/var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >echo  >> /var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >echo The Administrative Core >> /var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >/bin/mail -s "Your Email account is overquota" << /var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >/bin/rm /var/tmp/quotamail$$
> >echo $2 $mailsize >> $1
> >
> >-----end of /usr/sbin/quotamail -----
> >  
> >
> >>--- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>I'm pretty familiar with FS quotas we don't currently use them, this was 
> >>>a popup an imap generated message. I was hoping to set some soft limits, 
> >>>maybe have a warning when the user has an extraordinary amount of 
> >>>mail... This would just be for email, not on the users home directory as 
> >>>a whole. Just something I saw, was just curious.
> >>>
> >>>Justin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Robert Meyer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>There are a series of things involved here.  First, the use of the quota
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>system
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>to limit the amount of space a user is allowed to take up on a
> filesystem,
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>A
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>series of scripts that cruise the quota list and sends Email and an email
> >>>>system.
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm not a real big fan of quotas 'cuz I've had situations where the user
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>ran
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>out of quota space just as the big RPF for a proposal came in and it
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>bounced. 
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Mad scramble to clean out space and then get the program sponsor to
> resend
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>the
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>RFP.  Does not present the professional image...
> >>>>
> >>>>Cheers!
> >>>>
> >>>>Bob
> >>>>
> >>>>--- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>I'm playing with Courier Imap as some of you know, I'm going to deploy 
> >>>>>it in the next few months, I'm running sendmail/procmail with courier. I
> 
> >>>>>noticed my wife had a message when checking her UB mail, that she was 
> >>>>>90% of quota. Is this setup on the courier imap side or is this a MDA 
> >>>>>thing? Basically could I set this up with my setup? If not no biggie.
> >>>>>Justin
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
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> Justin Bennett
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> Dynabrade, Inc.
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