[Dovecot] Managesieve Quota

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 10:01 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> 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.

Maybe I'm overthinking the problem. There probably won't be more than a
few scripts. It's probably simplest if the quota is always just
recalculated by lstat()ing the files.
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