[Dovecot] dovecot-lda quota rule

[Micah Anderson]

micah anderson <micah at riseup.net> writes:

> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:09:12 -0500, micah anderson <micah at riseup.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:27:20 +0200, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 13:59 -0500, Micah Anderson wrote:
>> > > I really like the feature where you can define quota rules with percents
>> > > which trigger off of the default values[0] (so you can set the Trash to
>> > > allow for 10% more of the user's quota for example). 
>> > > 
>> > > What I would really love in dovecot would be for the ability to
>> > > configure a quota rule for dovecot-lda. I would like to configure things
>> > > so we don't bounce emails for users until they are well over quota, the
>> > > IMAP quota plugin is a really great way to notify people that they are
>> > > over quota because it fails to write to other folders.... that should be
>> > > enough to get people's attention that they need to deal with things, but
>> > > bouncing is harsh.
>> > 
>> > You can give LDA-specific quota settings. Like maybe:
>> > 
>> > protocol lda {
>> >   plugin {
>> >     quota_rule2 = INBOX:storage=200%
>> >   }
>> > }
>
> I just tried doing this, and I started bouncing mail for everyone
> because they were over quota (even when they arent), so I am clearly
> missing something in how I have it configured. This is what I have:

Solved, thanks to tss on irc... My problem was the dovecot-lda
invocation was not passing the -d parameter, so no userdb quota rules
were being applied.

micah