.. _imap-features-quota:

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Quota
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.. NOTE::

    Cyrus IMAP documentation is a work in progress. The completion of
    this particular part of the documentation is pending the resolution
    of :task:`70`.

Quota allows administrators to restrict the amount of resources used by
hierarchies of mailboxes.

Cyrus IMAP supports *storage quota*, which is defined as the number of
kilobytes used by the individual :rfc:`822` message files on disk

Back to :ref:`imap-features`
