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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">
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<refentry id="deliverquota">
  <info><author><firstname>Sam</firstname><surname>Varshavchik</surname><contrib>Author</contrib></author><productname>Courier Mail Server</productname></info>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>deliverquota</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="manual">Double Precision, Inc.</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>deliverquota</refname>
    <refpurpose>deliver to a maildir with a quota</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis sepchar=" ">
      <command>deliverquota</command>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-c</arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-w <replaceable>percent</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-W <replaceable>filename</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="req" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>maildir</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="req" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>quota</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1 id="description">
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>

    <para>
<command>deliverquota</command> delivers mail to a
<replaceable>maildir</replaceable> taking into account any
software-imposed quota on the maildir.
This manually-enforced quota mechanism is described in the
<ulink url="maildirquota.html"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>maildirquota</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></ulink>
and
<ulink url="maildirmake.html"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>maildirmake</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></ulink>
manual pages.
Instead of setting up your mail
server to deliver the message directly
to a maildir, configure the mail server to
run the <command>deliverquota</command> program in order to deliver the
message,
and specify the
location of the maildir as the argument to
<command>deliverquota</command>.</para>

    <para>
The second argument to <command>deliverquota</command> is optional.
If present, <replaceable>quota</replaceable> specifies a new quota setting
for this maildir.
Specifying <replaceable>quota</replaceable> is equivalent to running
<ulink url="maildirmake.html"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>maildirmake</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></ulink>
with the <option>-q</option> option.
The second argument to <command>deliverquota</command> is considered obsolete,
and may be removed in the future.</para>

    <para>
<command>deliverquota</command> reads the message from standard input
and delivers it
to <replaceable>maildir</replaceable>.
<replaceable>maildir</replaceable>
may specify a path directly to a maildir folder,
not the main <replaceable>maildir</replaceable>
(as long as the folder was created by the
<ulink url="maildirmake.html"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>maildirmake</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></ulink> command.</para>

    <para>
The <option>-c</option> option automatically creates the maildir,
and all missing parent subdirectories (as '<command>mkdir -p</command>').
This option should be used with caution.</para>

    <para>
The <option>-w N</option> option places a warning message
into the maildir if the maildir has a quota setting, and after
the message was successfully delivered the maildir was at least
<replaceable>N</replaceable> percent full.
The warning message is copied
from the file specified by the <option>-W</option> option, or from
<filename>@sysconfdir@/quotawarnmsg</filename> if <option>-W</option> was not
specified.
The
"<literal>Date:</literal>" and
"<literal>Message-Id:</literal>" headers are added to the message.
The warning is repeated every 24 hours (at least), until the maildir drops
below
<replaceable>N</replaceable> percent full.</para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="return">
    <title>RETURN CODE</title>

    <para>
<command>deliverquota</command> delivers the message to the maildir
and terminates with
exit code 0 if the message can be delivered without going over quota.</para>

    <para>
      If the maildir is over its specified quota: the maildrop version of
      <command>deliverquota</command>
      terminates with an exit code 77 (EX_NOPERM); the Courier version of
      <command>deliverquota</command>
      terminates with an exit code 75 (EX_TEMPFAIL).</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="seealso">
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>

    <para>
<ulink url="maildirquota.html"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>maildirquota</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></ulink>,
<ulink url="maildirmake.html"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>maildirmake</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></ulink>.
</para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>