[imp] The oft-asked question, UW-IMAP w/ quotas...

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Alain Fauconnet <alain at ait.ac.th>:

> > Sorry for beating a dead horse, but I keep seeing reference to this URL...
> >
> > https://mail.ph.utexas.edu/patches/wu-imap-quotas/

That address is back on the air now.  Sorry about that.

> > Concerning getting quotas working w/ UW-IMAP, w/ local or NFS mounted mail
> > stores, but unfortunately that link appears to be dead now.

Yes, it was.  Sorry, it lives again.  But it is rather out of date.

> > Any recommendations? New links? I'm running mail store and IMP 3.2.5 on the
> > same server, all mail using the ~/mbox storage.

Depending on OS and stuff, the above links may not work.  The accounts module
has a modified command line quota driver that will work on more of the newer
OS releases.  It should be ported to the new CVS HEAD Horde code, but I've
not yet done that.

> Also, getting current user quota & usage involves forking subprocesses
> to run the 'quota' command, with all the nasty things that can happen,
> including the the security concerns it brings. Not to mention to dirty
> tricks with 'edquota' to alter user quotas from a web admin interface.

All true, to the extent it applies.

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin
 
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