[Dovecot] Get the size of a maildir

[Nicolas Letellier]

Le Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:11:23 +0300,
Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> a écrit :

> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:50 +0200, Nicolas Letellier wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I would like to know it a 'proper' solution exist to get the size
> > (in MB) of a maildir. Actually, to get it, I do a 'du -sh' but I'm
> > not sure it is a good solution. And it does not return the same
> > value than imap-quota.
> > 
> > Is there a command, a tool, in Dovecot to get it?
> > 
> > There is the maildirsize but it's very difficult to get the value
> > with a script shell and with this file.
> 
> How about using IMAP? Like:
> 
> printf "1 getquotaroot inbox\n" | dovecot --exec-mail imap
> 
> (or depending on your settings change $USER, $HOME or use netcat and
> master user login)
> 
Thanks for the response. It seems to be a good solution! But I don't
know how use this tool. My mailboxes are in :
/var/mail/vmails/domain.tld/username

How know the size of username at domain.tld with dovecot -exec-mail imap?

-- 
 - Nicolas.