Re: [cpx] cpx address book

["Stormer's Cgi-Archive" <stormer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jones,

ahh.. that stinks.   I guess my email was for those that have never
heard of it then. =)

I have found with email accounts, I tend to give them the zero disk
space option, so it quota goes against their entire hosting account
verses separate quotas.  That tends to help.

James

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Jones<support@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi James, I have quotachecker installed. when it ran a few minutes after
> midnight everything was fine. it was a message that arrived around 5am that
> took him over his quota.
>
>
> Stormer's Cgi-Archive wrote on 6/11/2009 9:45 PM:
>>
>> I recommend you shell into your server (right now), go to root.
>>
>> Then type: vinstall quotachecker
>>
>> Around midnight or so every night, anyone within 80% of their quota
>> (you can change that percentage) will fire off a warning email to you
>> to let you know.  That way you can proactively increase their quota or
>> find out what is consuming all the quota in that account.   This is an
>> absolute LIFE SAVER.  I simply cannot stress enough the wonderfulness
>> of this little vinstall.
>>
>> I've seen way too many times, in the past, when an end user hits hard
>> quota and procmail just goes BONKERS.  It causes all sorts of
>> problems...
>>
>> ie. addressbook ?
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Jones<support@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Where does cpx store its address book?
>>>>
>>>> ~/.cpx/addressbook.xml
>>>
>>> For anyone still paying attention, after Russ told me the location of the
>>> address book, I was able to use the getback command to restore it.
>>>
>>> About getback - when you run getback on a file, you are given 4 versions,
>>> one from the previous day and three from 7, 14 and 21 days ago. The
>>> previous
>>> day version is "Online" and is free. The other versions are on tape and a
>>> fee is required to get them.
>>>
>>>>> I just got a message from a user that they lost the entries in their
>>>>> address book. They had let their account grow until they hit their
>>>>> quota.
>>>>> They use CPX for email. Is it possible that CPX will overwrite an
>>>>> address
>>>>> book with a zero length file is the user's quota limit is reached?
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> I can look at this for you.
>>>
>>> Thanks. The option to not write the user's address book if the user is
>>> out
>>> of space will be a nice feature to have.
>>>
>>> jmb
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