Mailbox Sizes

ViMbAdmin V3 has a new feature - calculation and display of mailbox (and home directory) sizes.

The current implementation is a little clunky in that it performs a du shell command per mailbox via a scheduled cron job. A future version could instead check the Dovecot quota limits to read this quickly and efficiently.

To enable this, run:

$INSTALL_PATH/bin/vimbtool.php -a mailbox.cli-get-sizes

where $INSTALL_PATH is the path to where you installed ViMbAdmin.

It's best scheduled as a nightly off-peak cron job (replacing $INSTALL_PATH as appropriate):

10 3 * * * root $INSTALL_PATH/bin/vimbtool.php -a mailbox.cli-get-sizes

In your application.ini, ensure you set:

defaults.list_size.disabled = false
;; Maildir size units. By default: KB. One of B, KB, MB or GB.
defaults.list_size.multiplier = 'GB'

Testing and Debugging

You can add the verbose operator -v or the debug operator -d to the above command for informational and debugging messages.