[Dovecot] Quota without dovecot LDA

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 13:54 +0100, Riccardo Bini wrote:
> Alle 13:43, mercoledì 8 novembre 2006, Timo Sirainen ha scritto:
> > On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 10:22 +0100, Riccardo Bini wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I use dovecot with maildir quota plugin + qmail + vpopmail but not
> > > dovecot LDA.
> > >
> > > My dovecot configuration:
> > > default_mail_env=maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/indexes/%h/%u
> > >:CONTROL=/var/cache/dovecot/control/%h
> > >
> > > If CONTROL env is set the maildirsize file is stored
> > > in /var/cache/dovecot/control/ but I use vpopmail as LDA.
> >
> > Why do you want to set CONTROL at all then? Based on the /var/cache name
> > you seem to think that control files are unimportant. I think they're
> > rather important and should be in backups and such.
> 
> No, I think CONTROL is important. I have to set CONTROL dir outside the 
> maildir directory because I use also filesystem quota.
> But I use vpopmail and the 'maildirsize' file for the soft quota it must stay 
> in maildir root and not in CONTROL dir.
> So I need the CONTROL files in /var/cache/dovecot (/home has quota enable, / 
> not) but maildirsize in maildir.

I think this is way too much of a special case to have a new setting,
one quota enforcement way should be enough :) You'll have to settle to
patching for now.
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