dovecot - Dec 2009 - [exim] Exim + Dovecot deliver overquota problems

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:44:42 +0100
Joan <aseques at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You need to check user's quota on routing stage, not transport.
> >
> It'd be much better, because I would allow me to mix overquota and
> no-overquota recipients.
> But the problem in my case is that I am using some hashing to
> distribute the users' mailboxes, dovecot can handle this easily
> because it supports some interesting stuff
> (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables)
Exim have much more variables and functions
http://exim.org/exim-html-4.69/doc/html/spec_html/ch11.html#SECTexpvar, so if
you don't use any special dovecot variable data, than it shouldn't be a
problem.
> With a perl script I could also do that, I would like only if it's the
> last resort (too much overhead I would think)
> >
Parsing file and counting quota value - is trivial stuff. The main disadvantage
of this way is executing external aplication on every RCPT TO command. If
you'll decide to use perl consider using option perl_at_start to minimize
aplication starting time.