[Dovecot] quota doesn't work?

Mauro Sanna mauro.sanna at comune.cagliari.it
Fri Feb 15 15:05:44 EET 2008


Il giorno ven, 15/02/2008 alle 14.58 +0200, Timo Sirainen ha scritto:
> On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 13:30 +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote:
> > I'm using dovecot 1.0.rc15 with debian etch.
> 
> I'd suggest upgrading to a newer version. backports.org has v1.0.10 for
> etch.
> 
> >         In dovecot.conf I have set  
> >         mail_plugins = quota imap_quota for imap
> >         mail_plugins = quota for pop3
> >         and quota = maildir:storage=10240.
> >         I seems that it doesn't work 'cause I send messages over 10M and
> >         it
> >         doesn't block my maildir box.
> >         I have to do something more?
> 
> What do you mean by "send"? If you mean messages sent via SMTP, it
> doesn't work because it's your SMTP server that saves the mail and
> Dovecot never even sees it until it's already saved to the mailbox.
> 

I'm using postfix to send messages.
Yes, postfix saves the mail but when dovecot sees that mail, for
example, mail X is over quota I think it may reject it.
Perhaps I need quota support for postfix?
Sorry for my bad english.



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