Viewing Email Account (Email User) Disk Quotas and Usage

The issue discussed in this thread involves cPanel accounts (system users) being over quota, that of file system quotas, and not e-mail account users.

I recommend using cPanel for managing e-mail accounts and viewing disk usage. If you need to view the e-mail user quota and usage information via command-line, SSH, or FTP, you may view the (automatically generated) YAML file at the following path within the applicable user's home directory:

Code:

~/.cpanel/email_accounts.yaml

Here is a command you may use via SSH to view the aforementioned YAML file, where "username" should be replaced by the applicable cPanel account username:

Code:

# cat ~username/.cpanel/email_accounts.yaml

Here's an example of what the file contents may look like where one e-mail account, abuser@domain.tld, has an unlimited quota while the other e-mail account, user@domain.tld, has a defined quota of ~2048 MB:

Code:

# cat ~username/.cpanel/email_accounts.yaml
--- 
domain.tld: 
  accounts: 
    abuser: 
      diskquota: '0'
      diskused: 4170
      mtime: '1281732235'
    user: 
      diskquota: '2147483647'
      diskused: 9798
      mtime: '1281732205'
  disk_mtime: '1272426349'
  mtime: '1281732235'
  quota_mtime: '1281732235'

If needing to modify e-mail account disk quotas please do so via cPanel to ensure all pertinent files are properly updated:

• cPanel: Main >> Mail >> Email Accounts

 

The sizes shown by "diskquota" and "diskused" are in bytes (B); you may easily convert between kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), and gigabytes (GB), by using a calculator to divide or multiply by 1024.

 

Friendly Moderator Note

This topic, discussing e-mail account disk quotas, has been separated into a new thread to prevent confusion with the original discussion.