[Dovecot] Vanishing maildirsize files with 1.0.7 using 'deliver' via postfix

[Jason Forester]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Jason Forester <hilobird at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> I think there are two issues:
>>
>> 1) Your recalculation is probably quite slow, assuming you don't have the
>> S=sizes in filenames. deliver adds these to new mails, but it doesn't help
>> for old ones.
>
> We just changed to Deliver, so that's probably true.
>
>> 2) Most people specify the limits in Dovecot's userdb, so this isn't an
>> issue.
>>
>> What userdb do you use?
>
> We are using ldap for auth/user.  I will take a look at specifying it
> there so that the quotas don't vanish

Just wanted to follow up and say that specifying the quotas in the
userdb has resolved the issue; maildirsize files are created if
they're missing and quotas appear to be handled as designed.

So thanks very much for the solution Timo.   This is my last week at
this job and that was my last major ticket.  Much appreciated!

- jason