[Dovecot] 2.0.5: quota warning failing

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 16:19 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > > Yeah, you can make the service user=root, but give only vmail user
> > > permission to it so only processes running as vmail can connect to it.
> > 
> > Good. The question is: which user will connect to the socket?
> > 
> > dovecot-lda will assume the UID of the user it's trying to deliver to.
> > So any user must be able to connect to the socket?
> 
> Yes. Although you could also play with groups, like make deliver always
> run with dovemail group enabled for the process
> (mail_access_groups=dovemail from deliver's side, but might be
> problematic from Postfix's side).

In my setup I still have my users in /etc/passwd, thus everybody has
their own ID.
> 
> > > An alternative to running as root would be to use LMTP to deliver the
> > > "over quota" mail to user and use some trick to disable quota for this.
> > > Maybe something like:
> > > 
> > > protocol lmtp {
> > >   local_ip 127.0.0.1 {
> > >     plugin {
> > >       quota = maildir:user:noenforcing
> > >     }
> > >   }
> > > }
> > 
> > Ugh.
> 
> You're already using dovecot-lda to deliver the out-of-quota mails?

No, I'm trying. I migrated from 1.2.4, where I used a script that
delivered the "Over quota infomail" by writing into the Maildir
DIRECTLY.

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