From: Magnus Bäck (no email)
Date: Wed Sep 01 2004 - 07:56:23 EDT
On Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 12:37 CEST,
Peter Riocreux <par+> 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.
-- Magnus Bäck
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