[Dovecot] quota - dict permission denied

[Abu Gid]

On 3/1/07, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:29 +0800, Abu Gid wrote:
> >
> >         You'll have to make your userdb return
> >         "quota=dirsize:storage=123456"
> >         setting for different users. What userdb do you use? http://
> >         wiki.dovecot.org/Quota shows some examples for SQL/LDAP.
> >
> >
> > The problem is I don't use any userdb, only use the passdb_pam.
>
> You do use a userdb. Most likely passwd. Otherwise you couldn't log in
> at all.
>
> > So, do I have to use userdb to authenticate users? or can I just use
> > any userdb for the quota part only. If that is so how can I set up the
> > db config? search the wiki.dovecot.org/Quota but could not find any
> > config that suit my current config ,that's why I plan to use the dict
> > server. Thanks again.
>
> You'll still have the exact same problem with dict, since you'd still
> have to set the quota from the userdb.
>
> There's an alternative way you could do with
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting, for example (just the
> simplest script I could think of):
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> quota=/etc/dovecot-quota/$USER
> if [ -f $quota ]; then
>   export QUOTA=dirsize:storage=`cat $quota`
> fi
>
> exec /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap


Have done that .  What should I put in the plugin {}.
Should it be :

quota = dirsize:storage=10240 or
quota = $QUOTA

Sorry, I'm a bit of newbie at this.
 -- azhar --
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