[Dovecot] RFC: Different quota for dovecot and deliver

[Philipp Marek]

Hello Timo,

thank you very much for your answer.

On Freitag, 17. Juli 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 10:51 +0200, Philipp Marek wrote:
> > What I'd like to achieve is that postfix uses the trigger value from the
> > Database as well, but that deliver allows a small bit more - say 5, 10,
> > or 20MB.
>
> Actually there shouldn't be a need to patch Dovecot to get this. You
> could just do something like:
>
> user_query = select .., \
>   '*:' || (case '%s' when 'deliver' then (quota+20*1024) else quota)) as
> quota_rule, ..
That would be perfect ... I'll take a look.

Are placeholders like "%s", "%n" etc. listed anywhere? Google doesn't help, a 
grep for "%s" in the sources is a bit misleading, and not even a

	grep "case.*'.'.*:" -r .

did help me.


> > I've now looked into the sources, and tried to sketch the basic change
> > that I imagine; please see the attached patch.
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you intended the patch to do. dict-sql is used
> only for storing the actual current quota usage (not limits) to database
> when using dict quota (and not Maildir++ quota).
It's entirely possible that I just looked into the wrong places.


Regards,

Phil