Re: Warning on nearing mailbox size limit

[Magnus Bäck <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 12:37 CEST,
     Peter Riocreux <par+postfix_users@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One of my colleagues whilst out of the office ran into a problem that
> he received a lot of large attachments which caused his mailbox to
> near the maximum size. He was unaware that things were bouncing at
> some point after this as the bounce messages were not going into his
> inbox, but sitting in the queue (as they should).
> 
> Is there some way to get postfix to send a user a mail when their
> inbox is nearing its limit either when it exceeds a certain size or
> proportion of total or when less than a minimum amount of space is
> left?

Nope, Postfix won't do that for you.

> Alternatively, can it be made to discount an amount of space needed
> for such an informational message from the size of the mailbox and if
> anything is bounced because of space, use this "reserved" space to
> deliver the informational message?

Write a script to monitor the sizes of users' mailboxes and use
a delivery agent such as procmail to deliver the warning message
directly to the mailboxes.

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Magnus Bäck
magnus@xxxxxxxxxxx