VDA quota problem - reason to create postfix25

[Sahil Tandon]

On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:

> Sahil Tandon wrote:
>
>> On Aug 31, 2009, at 7:36 AM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz>  
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> there is some problem with VDA and quotas in Postfix 2.6.x and  
>>> until  this will be fixed, the recommendation from VDA developer  
>>> is to use  last 2.5.x version of Postfix + VDA. So is possible to  
>>> create port  mail/postfix25? (as there are postfix23 and postfix24)
>> See ports/134711 which was filed roughly three months ago.  I  
>> don't  use VDA but it sounds like despite there being a patch for  
>> 2.6.x, we  should set it to IGNORE until someone reports a  
>> solution.  At the very  least, I propose we caution users against  
>> VDA if they try to build  with it for 2.6.x.  I'll work on that  
>> this week; let me know of any  disagreements with that approach.
>
> VDA works fine for somebody who are not using quotas, but IGNORE  
> will make Postfix 2.6 useless for those, who are using VDA on  
> mailservers leaving them without any working solution.
> So I propose big warning message befor + after installation of  
> Postfix with VDA enabled instead of IGNORE and create postfix25 when  
> time permits.
>
> Warning message sould be something like this:
> WARNING: You are installing Postfix with VDA, but this version  
> doesn't work correctly with quotas!
> If you want VDA with quota support, use version of Postfix older  
> than 2.6.

Yes that is what I had in mind with my    "at the very least"  
suggestion. :). As for the postfix25 repocopy, someone with a commit  
bit will have to adopt the PR.

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Sahil Tandon