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[Allen Shaw]

Hans,

Thanks for the input.  Not getting any response earlier, I decided to dive
in, and it's going well.

Thanks,
Allen


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans Zaunere" <hans at nyphp.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:33 PM
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] email quota hander in PHP


>
> > Anybody here want to try and talk me out of writing a PHP script to
> help me
> > trim down over-quota mailboxes on my server?  Somehow I pick up the
> > impression from some people that PHP is just not meant for this kind
> of
> > thing, and that I'd be better off going with python or perl.  Since
> I'm much
> > more familiar with PHP than most anything else, that seems a lot more
> > convenient.
> >
> > The background is that I've been looking for some ways to manage email
> > quotas per user on my server, something that's a little more flexible
> than
> > procmail's "bounce anything over-quota" methods.  Not having found
> anything
> > existing, I've started to hack something together in PHP that would
> get
> > called daily by cron and then implement a certain policy on over-quota
> mbox
> > files  (basically, delete oldest messages one-by-one until mbox size
> is
> > acceptable, but never delete anything less than x days old).  I've
> also got
> > access to something in Python which I could (extensively) modify --
> but I
> > don't look forward to that.
> >
> > Anybody in NYPHP-land want to issue a word of warning before I go this
> way?
>
> I think using PHP for this would be fine.  CLI PHP works great and I use
> it constantly.  Depending on your MTA, you could even check the quota
> "just-in-time", that is when mail is delivered, but before it's written
> to the mbox (Postfix comes to mind)
>
> H
>
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