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6 deliverquota - deliver to a maildir with a quota
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9 deliverquota [-c] [-w percent] {maildir} {quota}
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12 deliverquota delivers mail to a maildir taking into account any
13 software-imposed quota on the maildir. This manually-enforced quota
14 mechanism is described in the maildirquota(7)[1] and maildirmake(1)[2]
15 manual pages. Instead of setting up your mail server to deliver the
16 message directly to a maildir, configure the mail server to run the
17 deliverquota program in order to deliver the message, and specify the
18 location of the maildir as the argument to deliverquota.
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20 The second argument to deliverquota is optional. If present, quota
21 specifies a new quota setting for this maildir. Specifying quota is
22 equivalent to running maildirmake(1)[2] with the -q option. The second
23 argument to deliverquota is considered obsolete, and may be removed in
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26 deliverquota reads the message from standard input and delivers it to
27 maildir. maildir may specify a path directly to a maildir folder, not
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31 The -c option automatically creates the maildir, and all missing parent
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35 The -w N option places a warning message into the maildir if the
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37 delivered the maildir was at least N percent full. The warning message
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43 deliverquota delivers the message to the maildir and terminates with
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