[Dovecot] Quota on unlimited mailboxes (More info)

[Tim Traver]

Thanks Timo! That patch did the trick!

Its great that you are so quick with changes that affect your users.

Tim

On 11/22/2010 10:36 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> It wasn't really a bug, more like a feature I thought would have been a
> good idea, but wasn't really. Instead of using 100M, you could use e.g.
> 10% (10% of 0 is 0 = unlimited). Or apply this patch:
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/3a93121f652a
>
> On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 23:51 -0800, Tim Traver wrote:
>> ok, more info on this one. When I took out the quota_rule that added the
>> extra 100M to the trash quota, the unlimited accounts started working
>> properly again.
>>
>> So you know, I retrieve the quota values from the userdb lookups instead
>> of having a default configured in the dovecot config files, because they
>> could be all over the map depending on how each of our users is set up.
>>
>> and of course, from the dovecot -n output, you can see that I'm using
>> Maildirs and the maildirsize file for keeping track of quotas.
>>
>> Have I run into a possible bug with accounts that return 0 values for
>> the quota? does it accidentally think that the quota is actually 0 when
>> there is a quota_rule?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim.
>>
>>
>> On 11/21/2010 11:39 PM, Tim Traver wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> ok, I implemented the feature to allow 100 more MB in the trash, and it
>>> appears to work for accounts that have a standard quota, but it appears
>>> it doesn't work with an account that comes back with a 0 quota (meaning
>>> unlimited).
>>>
>>> So, I seemed to have fixed one issue, but then on accounts that have an
>>> unlimited quota, I now cannot even move items to the trash.
>>>
>>> Help!
>>>
>>> So, here's the situation. I now have some accounts that have much more
>>> than 100Mb in them with an unlimited quota level (ie 0S in the
>>> maildirsize file), and I can't simply delete a message now...
>>>
>>> here's my dovecot -n again if its needed :
>>>
>>> # 2.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>>> # OS: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE i386
>>> auth_username_format = %Lu
>>> auth_username_translation = %@
>>> auth_verbose = yes
>>> disable_plaintext_auth = no
>>> dotlock_use_excl = yes
>>> first_valid_uid = 100
>>> listen = *
>>> lock_method = dotlock
>>> log_path = /local/logs/dovecot.errors
>>> mail_fsync = always
>>> mail_gid = 100
>>> mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir
>>> mail_nfs_index = yes
>>> mail_nfs_storage = yes
>>> mail_plugins = " quota"
>>> mail_uid = 100
>>> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
>>> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
>>> encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
>>> relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
>>> environment mailbox date imapflags notify
>>> mmap_disable = yes
>>> passdb {
>>>   args = /bin/checkpassword_dovecot_auth
>>>   driver = checkpassword
>>> }
>>> plugin {
>>>   quota = maildir:User quota
>>>   quota_rule = Trash:storage=+100M
>>>   sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>>>   sieve_after = /home/mailboxes/sieve/to_spam_folder.sieve
>>>   sieve_dir = ~/Maildir/sieve
>>>   sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags
>>> }
>>> protocols = imap pop3 sieve
>>> service auth {
>>>   unix_listener auth-userdb {
>>>     group = sn
>>>     mode = 0600
>>>     user = sn
>>>   }
>>> }
>>> ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
>>> ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
>>> userdb {
>>>   driver = prefetch
>>> }
>>> userdb {
>>>   args = /bin/checkpassword_dovecot_deliver
>>>   driver = checkpassword
>>> }
>>> verbose_proctitle = yes
>>> protocol pop3 {
>>>   pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
>>> }
>>> protocol lda {
>>>   info_log_path = /local/logs/dovecot-deliver.log
>>>   log_path = /local/logs/dovecot-deliver-errors.log
>>>   mail_plugins = " quota sieve"
>>> }
>>> protocol imap {
>>>   mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota"
>>> }
>>> protocol sieve {
>>>   managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;ascii-numeric fileinto
>>> reject vacation imap4flags notify include envelope body relational regex
>>> subaddress copy
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/21/2010 3:11 AM, Patrick Westenberg wrote:
>>>> Miha Vrhovnik schrieb:
>>>>> "Patrick Westenberg"<pw at wk-serv.de>  wrote on 20.11.2010 23:46:14:
>>>>>> You can give additional space to e.g. Trash mailbox:
>>>>>> quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M
>>>>>>
>>>>> Patrick you sure, that doesn't mean that the trash quota is 100M?
>>>>> Haven't tested your version, but for sure I know, that the one below
>>>>> is most definitely full quota + 100M
>>>>> Trash:storage=+100M
>>>> As far as I remember the "+" is obsolete now.
>>>> My logfile told me ;-)
>>>>
>>>> And the wiki also says "additional space".
>>>>
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