Disabling Unlimited Quota "root access required"

Long has it been that the horde of people have been crying for CPANEL to put in a dam email option TO REMOVE the dredded "UNLIMITED" option from the page... well i got sick and tired of looking at that word and decided to remove it MANUALLY...
Barring some trail and error for 2 days i finally managed to remove it BUT also including limiting the MB to 2000MB regardless...
Cpanel i mean REALLY now looking at it, its so dam simple "making sure you have root access, if you running an account outside of root access then sorry cant help you unless you point the person whom is hosting your email to this POST"
I only did this for their new skin "Paper Lantern" i'm sure you can find the same line in the other skins but i couldn't be bothered because i only use "Paper Lantern - awesome skin btw not sure why you would use any other..."

** DISCLAIMER - you do this at your own risk, you use this at your own risk, i take no responsibility what so ever if you mess up by using this method... you have been warned...

1. you must have root access to the server or hosting, hosting the cpanel/whm
2. this edit applies to "Paper Lantern" only it MIGHT work for others
3. you are going to edit root files of cpanel MAKE BACKUPS before attempting any edits of said files
4. Mailbox Quota dont exceed 2048MB
5. THIS IS ONLY FOR ENGLISH other languages should work but youll have to figure that out.

** LETS START **
1. navigate to /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/paper_lantern/mail/pops/views
2. find the file changeQuotaModule.ptt
3. look for :

email-max-quota="{{maxQuota}}"​

change to :

email-max-quota="2000"​

can be what ever min/max amount you want just keep it below 2048
4. look for :

<li validation-item field-name="quota_number_input_{{$index}}" validation-name="emailMaxQuota" id="val-quota-max-quota">
[%- LANG.mailbox_maxquota -%]​

change to :

<li validation-item field-name="quota_number_input_{{$index}}" validation-name="emailMaxQuota" id="val-quota-max-quota">
Quotas cannot exceed xxxxMB​

where xxxx is, is the amount you've chosen to limit too
5. look for :

<label class="form-inline">
<input type="radio" id="quota_unlimited_{{$index}}" name="quotaType" value="unlimited" ng-model="quotaChange.quotaType"/>
<span> [% LANG.unlimited %]</span>
</label>​

and delete all of the above, this will remove the "UNLIMITED" option from the page "WOOOHOOO!!!"
6. save and exit, reload page and check the magic of no unlimited... try setting a higher than 2000mb limit and youll see some more magic

Cpanel so simple, i mean really... for the people that created this awesome product not to inlcuding something like this is beyond me...

 

*bUMp* AND *Update*

Just fair warning if cpanel does any updates it seems to always update all the paper_latern files there by overwriting the changes...
No problem just repeat steps above and youll be back to normal again, suppose you need to keep track of cpanel/whm updates then

 

Ye already on that road and testing, never really dived into their code pages/themes, I just got tired of clients leaving the unlimited option on and forgetting about the box while spam builds up. Just recently removed boxes full of spam totalling near 20gig, crazy...
and yes before you ask running CSF in "hard" mode else im sure that would have been 200gig worth of spam... LOL

What code did you use to get this right was it part of the {{maxquote}} or some other code peice... ?

Yes that been what YEARS now, looking at the code and thinking to my self how can they not just add a tick to HIDE it, it would honestly be so SIMPLE for them... beyond words, keeping the max quota aside, a simple tick... sheesh...

 

No need for code changes they have F I N A L L Y made it possible for us to do it from with in CPANEL, all hail the coders they finally woke up...

Thanks guys/girls/devs for finally making it possible

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