[Dovecot] Managesieve Quota

[Seth Mattinen]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 09:40 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> Has anyone (is anyone) working on adding quota support to dovecot's
>> managesieve server? I was thinking about giving it a shot myself and I'd
>> hate to duplicate work. It would be something very basic like a max
>> bytes setting and the total sieve storage per user isn't allowed to
>> exceed it.
> 
> I think it would be nice to be able to use the standard quota plugin
> with managesieve so that all the same backends and configuration could
> be used. The main problem I see is:
> 
> Does anyone want (or need) to have the mail and sieve quota shared,
> instead of specifying separate limits for them?
> 
> With shared quota the code will probably have to have some kind of sieve
> hardcoding or write some kind of state files so it knows where to look
> when recalculating quota. So preferrably no-one needs this. :)
> 
> So without shared quota they could be configured as "sievestorage" and
> "sievefiles" which would also be visible using IMAP quota commands.
> Configuration could go like:
> 
> quota = dict:::proxy::quota
> quota_rule = *:storage=100M:sievestorage=1M:sievefiles=10


No need for sharing from me. (In fact, I don't use mail quotas at all.)
My only goal is to have some kind of sieve quota to prevent someone from
filling the filesystem with garbage either intentionally or through a
baldy written client.

~Seth