[Kolab-devel] (fwd) how to deal with quotas / suggested feature "monthly quota increase"

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Zitat von Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh at gcd.ie>:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 02 Sep 2010, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:
>
>> so what do you think of a concept such as Hierarchical Storage  
>> Management, if
>> anything?
>
> I like the idea, but I think it's probably a bit beyond our situation here.
> It would probably cost us as much to provide the secondary storage as to
> expand our existing storage.  If we were working on a larger scale I could
> see make more sense.  Perhaps as our usage expands we might come back to
> it.
>
>> - Iterate LDAP users,
>> - Compare their current quota setting to the actual mailbox volume,
>> - Possibly, given a margin percentage (70% of quota?), trigger a quota
>>   increase,
>>   - Such increase using a formula such as "+20MB" or "+25%",
>> - Enter the new value in LDAP,
>> - Send reports to Administrators on quota increase + current mail  
>> spool usage
>>   + current mail spool size assigned in cumulative quotas,
>>   - Possibly limited to when mail spool usage approaches X% or Y% one way or
>>     the other
>
> This seems pretty spot on.  The +25% would be exponential increase which
> I'd be less keen on, but I guess it's possible that might appeal to someone.
>
>> What do you think of the above roadmap?
>
> Looks reasonable.  Would you want it in perl, php, shell, something else?

PHP ;) - not because of a personal preference but because most parts  
of the server use it.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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