I'm trying to test out how a new qmail mailsystem (P4 2.8GHz) handles quotas. At the moment, I'm using qmail's quotas to enforce a per-user limit. It isn't working out right.

To test it, I sent an 80 Meg attachment to a mailbox. Then I combed the logs for errors, and found this:

2003-10-25 23:36:23.663424500 delivery 133: deferral: maildrop:_Timeout_quota_exceeded./

Then I checked in my Maildir directory some time later and found a slew of 50Meg-ish files, looking something like this:

-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 55632896 Oct 25 21:00 1067138958.M913503P3183_0.email.mydomain.com,S=122579996

So this looks to me like the file bulked up from 80 to 120Megs with encoding, and delivery was attempted but only up to 50Megs or so, and maildrop seems to have timed out....

Anyway, I'd like to know how to get quotas to work. And I'd like to learn more about the limits of the maildrop delivery agent on the topic of quotas. I've STFW already and not found a lot. Any help would be appreciated.

Regards, Chris