Re: Postfix + Quota (+ procmail?)
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 11:18, Emmanuel Lacour wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:47:07AM +0200, R.M. Evers wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been researching what would be our best option for converting our
> > old Redhat mailserver with Sendmail to something better. I'm not exactly
> > a Linux guru, though I'm no newbie either. Finally, I've decided to use
> > Debian Woody, with the following setup:
> >
> > /dev/hda1 -> /boot
> > /dev/hda2 -> /
> > /dev/hda3 -> /home
> >
> > - Postfix delivering to Maildir (from stable)
> > - Courier POP3(S) / IMAP(S) (from stable)
> > - Spamassassin (from unstable)
> > - Amavisd / Clamav-daemon (from unstable)
> >
> > A user's Maildir is ~/Maildir and I've setup quota on /home (soft: 5MB,
> > hard: 10MB). I've written the scripts to convert the old mboxes to the
> > new Maildir format etc. Everything seems to work fine, except for this
> > little problem I found today.
> >
> > When a user is over his soft quotum and I try to send a mail with an
> > attachment which will bring the user over his hard quotum on /home,
> > Postfix accepts the email. Then, a part of the email is written to the
> > user's Maildir until the hard quotum is reached, and things stop. So,
> > now I'm left with a user who has a partial email/attachment and no more
> > disk space. Additionally, the mail is stored/kept in the user's mbox
> > (/var/mail/user, where there is no quotum). When the user cleans up his
> > account, the mail never gets delivered properly, and the sender gets no
> > notification that something went wrong. The daily warnquota email is
> > received as a 0-byte email by the user, because the hard limit is
> > reached. I don't know what could be causing this (postfix or procmail?).
> > Another thing I don't understand, is that whenever I send an email to a
> > user who is below his soft limit, and which will bring the user over his
> > hard limit at once, Ximian Evolution nicely reports to me that the
> > sending failed, because the storage limit is exceeded. In that case,
> > nothing gets delivered, which probably is what I want.
> >
> > So I'm wondering: what could be wrong with my setup?
> >
> > I get the idea that i should maybe get out the procmail part of the
> > configuration. But I could only get Spamassassin to work via procmail..
> > I believe it should be possble to get it to work via Amavis, but I don't
> > know how..
> >
>
> Maybe replace procmail with maildrop and use soft maildir quotas (I got
> this working on a server). Alternatively you can use the virtual
> delivery to use soft maildir quotas, but I don't known how to enable
> spamassassin in this case (maybe a global postfix filter).
So, if I understand correctly, I *have to* enable SpamAssassin through
an MDA? I thought SpamAssassin could be called by amavisd-new, which
would make the MDA unnecessary, since Postfix can deliver to Maildir
directly..
Regards,
--
R.M. Evers <debian@hbh-it.nl>
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