[Dovecot] quota reporting and mail.app

[Rich at Whidbey Telecom]

If I remember right, this is a known issue, where Mail.app won't report 
the quota when QUOTAROOT is "".  We've found no fix for it here as it 
seems to be a Mail.app issue.

Rich

Mike Horwath wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I can't get mail.app to report back correct quota information using
> mail.app and dovecot (though it works with courier-imap).
> 
> I am looking at migrating away from courier-imap to dovecot but this
> issue is something I need to have resolved <somehow>.
> 
> Thunderbird is fine and reports back good info on either connection.
> 
> I am off to read RFCs (can't I just read the sendmail book again?
> Might be easier...) to see what should really be done.
> 
> Courier:
> 
> [4:17pm] 341 [~]:gold% telnet imap-server 143
> Trying 216.250.xxx.xxx...
> Connected to imap-server.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2005 Double Precision, Inc.  See COPYING for distribution information.
> . login testaccount at domain.com passwordsRfun
> . OK LOGIN Ok.
> . GETQUOTAROOT "INBOX"
> * QUOTAROOT "INBOX" "ROOT"
> * QUOTA "ROOT" (STORAGE 14 665600)
> . OK GETQUOTAROOT Ok.
> . logout
> * BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down
> . OK LOGOUT completed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> Dovecot:
> 
> [4:17pm] 342 [~]:gold% telnet imap-server 1143
> Trying 216.250.xxx.xxx...
> Connected to imap-server.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS QUOTA STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready.
> . login testaccount at domain.com passwordsRfun
> . OK Logged in.
> . GETQUOTAROOT "INBOX"
> * QUOTAROOT "INBOX" ""
> * QUOTA "" (STORAGE 13 665600)
> . OK Getquotaroot completed.
> . logout
> * BYE Logging out
> . OK Logout completed.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> 

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Rich Sandberg
richs at whidbey.net
Whidbey Telecom Network Operations