Specifying Quotas for Folders and Message Types

To enable the quotas for individual folders or specific message types, you must run the configutil command with the parameters store.quotafolder.enable and store.typequota.enable.

To enable and configure message types, you also must enable the configutil parameter store.messagetype.enable and configure other configutil parameters.

Guidelines for Specifying Multiple Quota Values

You can specify the following mailQuota values for a user's mailbox tree:

• Quota values for specific folders in the user's mailbox

• Quota values for specific message types such as voice mail or text messages. A message type quota applies to messages of that type in all folders in the user's mailbox.

• A default quota value that applies to all folders and message types in the user's mailbox that are not explicitly assigned quotas.

The following guidelines apply when you assign multiple quota values for a user:

• Quotas do not overlap. For example, when there is a quota for a particular message type or folder, messages of that type or messages in that folder are not counted toward the default quota. Each message counts toward one and only one quota.

• The total quota for the whole user mailbox equals the sum of the values of all the quotas specified by default, type, and folder.

• Message type quotas take precedence over folder quotas. For example, suppose one quota is specified for a user's memos folder and another quota is specified for voice messages. Now suppose the user stores eight voice messages in the memos folder. The eight messages are counted toward the voice-mail quota and excluded from the memos folder quota.

Formatting Quota Values for Folders and Message Types

To specify mailQuota values for folders or message types, use the following format:

mailQuota: {quota}[;{name}%{quota}]...

where

{quota} is the number of bytes. For a description of the allowed numeric values, see quota Values.

{name} is the name of the folder or message type.

The semicolon (“;” ) is a separator that separates multiple quota values.

The percent sign (“%”) associates a folder or message-type name with the quota value that follows it.

Additional Formatting Guidelines for Quota Values

• The first {quota} in the syntax shown above–that is, the first quota value entered after the mailQuota attribute—does not have a name. This value represents the default quota for all folders in the user's mailbox that are not explicitly assigned quotas. The default value applies to all the unnamed folders combined, not individual folders.

• A message-type name starts with a pound sign (“#”).

• A folder name does not start with a pound sign (“#”).

• The “%” and “#” signs are not allowed in folder names or message-type names.