[Dovecot] Quota's with Thunderbird

[Alan Premselaar]

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Richard Mayhew - Nashua Mobile Broadband Division wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Does anyone know how to get Thunderbird to correctly report the mailbox
> quota's? I know Dovecot is correctly enforcing the quotas on the mailbox
> when using Thunderbird, but Thunderbird reports that the "server does
> not support quota's" when trying to view the usage? Is Thunderbird
> expecting something different?
>  
> Viewing the mailbox through Squirelmail, the quota's are reported
> correctly, so I would thnk that Thunderbird is where the problem lies.
>  
> Regards
>  
> Richard
>  

Richard,

 make sure that you have both 'quota = ' and 'imap_quota = ' in your
imap plugins definitions in dovecot's configuration.

Also, it would definitely help to give us specifics of your
configuration. (i.e. which version of dovecot, on what operating system,
etc)

you should also double-check to make sure that your squirrelmail plugin
isn't directly looking at disk quotas as opposed to grabbing the quota
information via IMAP. (check_quota does this)

the easiest way to determine if dovecot is actually supporting quotas is
to telnet to your dovecot machine on port 143 and then after connecting
type:

1 capability

(after it outputs the capabilities that dovecot has, you can then type
"2 logout" to exit)

it should have "QUOTA" in the list somewhere (likely towards the end)

if it doesn't there is a problem with the quota support compiled into
dovecot.

hope this helps

alan
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