[Dovecot] Problem with ldap / quotas

[Nikolaos Milas]

I forgot to cc the list in my subsequent question in this thread, so 
that question and Timo's reply has not been included in the mailing list.

I am submitting for thread completeness, thanking Timo for his 
invaluable help.

Nick


On 22/2/2011 6:23 μμ, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 22.2.2011, at 18.11, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
>
>> I added dn and dnpass and now everything appears to be running smoothly. I checked, and the maildirsize file gets updated according to the quota value we set in LDAP.
>>
>> Can you also please clarify: When the default policy is to offer to users some storage space (say 4G) and some additional for Trash (say 100M), and then we define (over LDAP) a different storage space for a particular user (for example 1M), then:
>>
>>   1. This user will also "inherit" a 100M Trash from the default policy
>>      or not (in this example 1+100M)?
> Yes.
>
>> Can we change this (also define
>>      per user Trash size)?
> Yes, you can also have ldap return quota_rule2 to override it. Or instead of a hard coded limit, you could set Trash's size to e.g. 10% of the default limit (quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=10%%) so you don't have to return it from ldap.
>
>>   2. If we define quota_warning (say 75%), the value will apply to the
>>      total of (MainStorage + Trash (here 101M)) or to MainStorage only
>>      (1M)?
> MainStorage = 1M.
>
>> I'm asking because I reduced the storage space to only 50K for a test account (for experimenting), and sent various emails (over smtp) to that mailbox, but I saw no warnings or mailbox locking when the mailbox was over-quota or full.
> Locking? You mean it allowed user to exceed quota? mail_debug=yes could log something useful about what's going on.