I don't know whether any one tested this out but here are some results which me and another user parag on this board found out.
We created a user email id under domain abc.com with [email protected] and assigned 1 MB limit to this account. User home directory showed us that the quota is being stored in /home/user/etc/quota and /home/user/etc/quota,v file. Now when we send a mail to this user from root (we used the root account to send mails as it would be the fastest
). The mail was first send of 1.5mb to check the quota, as expected it wasn't delivered. Checking the mail queue from WHM, we tried force delivery and the error resulted as mail box full, MTA-imposed quota exceeded while writing to file /home/username/mail/test/inbox. The mail stayed there in the queue i guess probably for the retry time which is defined by default to try to deliver the mail later on. Now manually this mail was deleted and then another mail of 3K was send to the same address. The mail didn't get delivered. When we checked the mail queue, the mail was in queue, when tried force delivery, the same error msg repeated:
mail box full, MTA-imposed quota exceeded while writing to file /home/username/mail/test/inbox.
This is quite surprising, with a user email account of 1MB, a mail of 3K couldn't be delivered ?? Please note we took into consideration the cpanel user disk quota limit everything, all looked perfect. Even this new user was fresh, so there were no older mails also.
Also there are a few suggestions:
1. After we give a particular X amount of quota for an email user, when we see the POP accounts list, there is no place the quota is listed there. It would be surely be confusing for users if they forget how much quota was assigned to a particular user.
2. Apart from the quota listing, there should be an option wherein the cpanel user can edit the quota of mailbox again. At present though this can be manually done by editing the quota file in /home/user/etc.
regards,
Anand
We created a user email id under domain abc.com with [email protected] and assigned 1 MB limit to this account. User home directory showed us that the quota is being stored in /home/user/etc/quota and /home/user/etc/quota,v file. Now when we send a mail to this user from root (we used the root account to send mails as it would be the fastest
mail box full, MTA-imposed quota exceeded while writing to file /home/username/mail/test/inbox.
This is quite surprising, with a user email account of 1MB, a mail of 3K couldn't be delivered ?? Please note we took into consideration the cpanel user disk quota limit everything, all looked perfect. Even this new user was fresh, so there were no older mails also.
Also there are a few suggestions:
1. After we give a particular X amount of quota for an email user, when we see the POP accounts list, there is no place the quota is listed there. It would be surely be confusing for users if they forget how much quota was assigned to a particular user.
2. Apart from the quota listing, there should be an option wherein the cpanel user can edit the quota of mailbox again. At present though this can be manually done by editing the quota file in /home/user/etc.
regards,
Anand