[Dovecot] Dovecot + Exim + Maildir quota problem

[Matteo Tinazzi]

Il 16/02/2011 17:23, Matteo Tinazzi ha scritto:
> Hi all i'm a new user of this list, i got a server with DirectAdmin 
> which has exim as MUA, dovecot as POP/IMAP server, recently i added 
> the quota to exim and pointed the maildirsize file in the same 
> location if the dovecot's one so both services can interact with it. 
> This has been done to let exim update the quotas while doing 
> localdelivery while dovecot can show quotas through roundcube and 
> update them when users delete mails.
> The issue that i noticed is that some users get wrong quota 
> informations... after a little investigation i think it could be a 
> concurrent access to this file so dovecot tries to remove the deleted 
> mails fomr maildirsize and exim tries to put new ones inside.
> In a specific case i got a user with a quota of 50M seeing that 75% of 
> his quota filled while the real weight of the mail files is about 4% ...
>
> any help would be very appreciated

Solved. The problem was that pop3 directive in dovecot.conf hasn't quota 
plugin enabled, so users that read emails trough pop instead of imap 
won't update maildirsize