[Dovecot] enabling quota.

Alexander Prinsier aphexer at mailhaven.com
Mon Jun 30 14:41:38 EEST 2008


Mauro Sanna wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 30/06/2008 alle 13.32 +0200, Alexander Prinsier ha
> scritto:
>> Mauro Sanna wrote:
>>> if I use dovecot deliver, in dovecot.conf I need to enable only
>>>
>>> protocol lda {
>>>   mail_plugins = quota
>>> } 
>>>
>>> or I must enable also
>>>
>>> protocol pop3 {
>>>   mail_plugins = quota
>>> }
>>>
>>> and in case I have imap
>>>
>>> protocol imap {
>>>   mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
>>> }
>>> ?
>>>
>> You also need to specify what backend you want to use (fs quota,
>> maildir++ quota's, ...).
> 
> Yes I've just specified it, it's maildir but........I need to enable
> quota only for protocol lda or also for pop3 and imap?
> 

You need both. I think the setting in the lda part tells dovecot's
deliver that it needs to update the quota files on delivery, and the
setting in the imap/pop3 part will tell the imap/pop3 daemons to update
the quota files when a user deletes a message for example.

Alexander


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