Quota Confusion

I'm trying to use the tellmail command to set a users quota.
 I issue 
the command

tellmail quota_set cbuccojmail.umd.edu 524288000 
(500MB)
 >>quota set to 524288000 bytes for user cbuccojmail.umd.edu

When I then check the quota,

tellmail quota cbuccojmail.umd.edu
 >>52428800 bytes used of unlimited
 >>86979944k bytes used by domain

If I use the web interface, I can set the quota and it
works.

My question, is am I misreading the functionality of the
quota_set 
command?  It seems to to to tell surgemail how much space
the current 
account is using and does not set that users quota.  Is
there another 
command I can use?  I need to set quota on a larger number
of users.

Clint

encase anyone is looking for the answer to this question.  I
was indeed 
misreading the function of the Quota_Set command.

 From Surgemail Tech support

 >>"Indeed you are misreading the purpose of that
command it is for 
testing purposes and not for actually setting >>a
users quota at all.

 >>There is no simple command to change settings for a
bunch of users 
with a script.
 >>Except that one can pipe text into the authent
module:
 >>    nwauth <cmds.txt
 >>And so one can in a round about way modify multiple
accounts
 >>"

 >>regards,
 >>Stuart

Clint


Clint Bucco wrote:
> I'm trying to use the tellmail command to set a users
quota.  I issue 
> the command
>
> tellmail quota_set cbuccojmail.umd.edu 524288000 
(500MB)
> >>quota set to 524288000 bytes for user
cbuccojmail.umd.edu
>
> When I then check the quota,
>
> tellmail quota cbuccojmail.umd.edu
> >>52428800 bytes used of unlimited
> >>86979944k bytes used by domain
>
> If I use the web interface, I can set the quota and it
works.
>
> My question, is am I misreading the functionality of
the quota_set 
> command?  It seems to to to tell surgemail how much
space the current 
> account is using and does not set that users quota.  Is
there another 
> command I can use?  I need to set quota on a larger
number of users.
>
> Clint
>
>