Customer email notification when mailbox quota exceeded
It would be a very useful feature to have an email automatically injected to a customers mailbox when their quota is close to the limit and another when the mailbox quota has been exceeded with advice (customisable) on how to resolve the problem.
Sometimes clients are unaware/forget their quota and if accessing via outlook/smartphone etc they are not aware of the limit being reached. This can result in several days without emails or emails being rejected with a "mailbox full" autoresponder. Ironically this means anyone sending emails to the client are aware the mailbox is full but the client is unaware of the problem.
Good news everyone!
This functionality was added in Plesk for Linux Obsidian RTM release. We suggest you upgrade to the latest version and check it out.
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Mauro commented
Possibile che ancora non ci sia questa funzione sono piu di 10 anni che pago la licenza
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John A. shiells commented
Plesk seems to be more interested in creating plugins where they can charge monthly fees to use, instead of actually fixing bugs and adding features people are looking for. heck, they did not even bother to finish plesk Multi server, it still does not work with version 17.8 AND in the roadmap docs they have removed all the notes for future features that were supposed to be added... but we got SEO toolkit (paid) and Joomula tool kit (paid) and a bunch of other extensions we don't need.
1) Finish what you start
2) give the people what they want
3) stop charging monthly for every new feature in the form of "extensions"you are starting to anger your clients.
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Greg Conway commented
We've just discovered 2 x mailboxes that were over quota so the clients haven't been receiving emails... but we haven't received the email alerts because the subscription isn't over quota. This suggestion is over 5 years old and is no.3 in the list but is still an open discussion not underway?!!
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Anonymous commented
really really need this feature guys - why is it taking so long - it was part of hsphere since the beginning and most other control panels have this or you cna get an add on to add it
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Andreas Schnederle-Wagner commented
Hey - we missed the 5 year anniversary of this Ticket ... what a pitty! ;-)
+1
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paedu commented
Thanks for this great message, carefully hoping it's not a joke renewal and your personal list is not too long :)
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twistedpixel commented
Hi Sergey, thanks for the update. That's really good news! However, while implementing a script to do this myself I noticed that somewhere along the Plesk upgrade path (presumably) custom quotas became out of sync between qmail's maildirsize file and Plesk's database. The database showed the correct size but many of the email accounts had the default quota in maildirsize. Updating every email address with a different quota (in Plesk UI) and then back to the desired custom value corrected this but it might be something you want to make a note of :)
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@paedu
Glad that you liked the joke. :)
Last 2 years we were focused on other requests, such as DNSSEC, Lets Encrypt improvements, SSL for mail, Limiting CPU per user, etc. All highly voted as well. Fixing them, we cleared some room for new requests.We fully recognize volume of interest to the mailbox quota problem. Once we finish the current release, and will start planning next one - we will seriously consider this option to get included. Beyond the uservoice portal, it is in my personal list now.
Thanks a lot for your patience.
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Brian Essig commented
This now seems to be the 3rd highest voted issue.....
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paedu commented
Dear Sergey L (Director of Program Management, Plesk International GmbH), more than 2 years ago you commented my post as follows: "Sorry, but whether you can accept the argument or not - we can only sort requests by amount of votes, not by amount of please! or urgent! comments."
Thank you for this great long-term joke :) Every month, when I had another angry customer on the phone, I love it to look at the amount of votes again. Every month I'm talking to myself: only 20 more.. then it's time! Only 20 more... they will start to plan this soon! Maybe 650 votes? 700? 2900? 7 billions? Yes, we can!
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Brian Essig commented
Single handedly the number 1 thing customers complain to us about.
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Jürgen Schneider commented
I also don't understand, why the staff didn't tell their reason not to implement this since years. This is not a nice to have, it's necessary!
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Mauro commented
why does the staff say nothing about this post?
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Mauro commented
why does the staff say nothing about this post?
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Luis Zubeldia commented
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joska Moeller commented
Nowadays much more people use IMAP and that's the main freason why it is urgently needed to have sent notifications, that the mail quota will exceed. Otherwise this causes confusions, unnecessary work or error searches and so on.
A MUST for a paid control panel software and a shame that this isn't implemented in YEARS.
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G J Piper commented
I had written a script that would do it about 5 years ago. The trick was to keep the offending users' email from getting more than one email notice at a time. I had it set to run from cron every hour. Every time it ran, it would scan for (real, non-alias) accounts that were up to 95% of quota. For each account that was close to max quota, it would scan all that account's inbox email for a specific code string that gets sent on the bottom of every "notice" email. If it didn't find the string, it would send that account a notice email. If it did find the string, it would skip sending so as to not bombard the user with dozens of notices. It worked pretty well!
I'm reluctant to dig up this script again as I'd much rather use a Plesk solution for this problem, which I know from my example can be done. I tried briefly to get it working again a year or so ago, but couldn't find an easy way to scan the quotas like I had when I was using a FreeBSD server with command-line quota tools.
Anyway, this is one way it could be done. Please consider it, Plesk masters. :-)
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Anonymous commented
Please stop the discussion, this is a feature that fits to plesk.
After 4 years this is even more essential...My customers always tell me how important their e-mails are. ;)
Is it hard work to implement it?
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Mike commented
Lets discuss this idea more ... uuhhh mm .. do it !!! Its very essential and a basic feature for everyone.
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Tobias Gábríél Sörensson commented
Add this please. how is this not standard?