Re: [webmin-l] Virtualmin Mailbox quota needs doubling to work

[Kris D. <kd...@vi...>]

Unknown Questions wrote:
> it has been suggested to me that
> "The way qpopper (the mail retrieval program) works is that it copies 
> the entire mailbox when someone pops logs in. So the user needs a quota 
> of double the size of their mailbox for this to work.

I don't know of *any* other POP daemon that does this.

> I don't know if there is a "fix" for this."

Patch the qpopper source to put the temporary file somewhere else.  Or 
use something else - I suggest Teapop (http://www.toontown.org/teapop/). 
  I've been using it for quite some time for virtual hosting and I've 
been very happy with it.  It supports a range of authentication methods, 
mailbox formats, and access methods (eg IP-based vs user@domain).  I've 
also been happy with the POP3 daemon bundled with UW-IMAP, but it 
doesn't really support virtual domain usage of much of any kind very well.

Doubling the quota would sort of work, but you'd have to have some sort 
of other check for over-quota on mail delivery as the filesystem quotas 
wouldn't kick in until 50M.  :(

-kgd