On Wed, 07 Apr 2010, Holm Kapschitzki might have said: > Simon Matter schrieb: > >> Holm Kapschitzki schrieb: > >>> on my debian box running cyrus imap, most of the postboxes have a quota > >>> of 100 MB configured. The info is stored in a textfile. On the first > >>> line there is the currently quota and on the second line there is the > >>> real hardquota, for example 100000 (100 MB) > >>> > >>> Its possible to stop the cyrus mailserver und replace the second line > >>> with another value without breaking something for all the defined > >>> postboxes? > > > > Yes that's possible but you should use Cyrus quota command instead which > > can be done while Cyrus is up and running. And note that quota information > > can be stores in other database formats which will make the method above > > unusable. > > > > > thx for answer. But i had to change over 5 thousend mailboxes. so its > impossible to change this boxes step by step. Thats the reason, i asked > for changing directly in the textfile. But you say thats impossible > cause it can be stores in other database formats. Do i have another > possibility? > > Holm Can you use expect(1) to change the mail boxes through cyradm(8)? Mike ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html