[Dovecot] Quota, message is never send?

[Luuk@dovecot]

On 12-05-2012 20:42, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 12.05.2012 20:35, schrieb Luuk at dovecot:
>> On 12-05-2012 19:48, Gedalya wrote:
>>>
>>> I understand you sent an email to yourself?
>>> If you gained one $message_size upon reception and lost 2*$message_size
>>> upon deletion from Inbox+Sent, I would suspect quota plugin isn't active
>>> when the message is being delivered. How are messages delivered? Dovecot
>>> LDA, LMTP or an external MTA?
>>> You really should use LDA or LMTP to handle quota accounting.
>>
>> Yes, i was sending it to meself...
>> Postfix delivers mail using procmail.
>> Next thing i need to read about mailservers are the LDA/LMTP pages....
> 
> this should be one of the first things
> 
> nobody needs procmail/shellscripts to get quota with postfix
> and a MDA with LMPT support wokring these days
> 
> usually the better way implementing services is to draw
> what exactly is needed and read docs how all this things
> can be achived

Everything (besides quota ;) is working as needed

> 
> example from dbmail (dovecot should be the same)
> /etc/postfix/master.cf:
> dbmail-lmtp     unix  -       -       n       -        -      lmtp -o disable_dns_lookups=yes
> 
> set the postfix-transport to "dbmail-lmtp:127.0.0.1:24" for each domain which should
> be delivered to LMTP and you are done, "dbmail-lmtp" is only a name
> 
> 
> 
> 

i have a line like that in my master.cf, i reads:
lmtp      unix  -       -       n       -       -       lmtp

but (apparantly) is not used.

Before starting to use that, i should make sure all received mail keeps
coming in at the right place...