Re: [cobalt-users] Mail Disk Usage

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

craig wrote:

> Ok the only way I have done this is to make 2 users for the domain set the
> domain as say 30 mb
> set user 1 as 10 mb and as an admin for the site
> set the other users as the mail user with 20 mb quota
> and not an admin with the catchall email alais
> It sort of works

Here's what I used to do:

Offer, for example, an account with 50 meg of webspace and 5 users.  Set
up the site for 75 megabytes.  Set up six user accounts, the first of
which is the site admin, and also the "catchall" email account; that one
gets 50 meg of quota, a catchall alias, and a forward to another email
address.  The other users are for email, and we gave each of them five
megabytes.  We always used arbitrary usernames, as well, for example:

site: joescardboardco.com
catchall/admin user: jcbc0000
email accounts: jcbc0001, jcbc0002, jcbc0003, jcbc0004, jcbc0005

Then when you set up users, you just give them aliases:
joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, for example.

I'm not sure if I'd still do it this way or not; we also turned off the
siteadmin gui, and did all the changes ourselves; that's tech-support
intensive.

I think today I'd be tempted to just sell 100 megs, set up the admin
with a large quota s/he can change, and let him/her set up the other
accoutns at will.  And write a good FAQ of course <smile>.

Jeff
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