[Dovecot] Per user quotas

[Jack Bates]

My recommendation is that you use Passwd-file instead of Passwd and 
specify /etc/passwd. I mention this, as Passwd can use NSS and may not 
give you the results you want. Passwd-file will guarantee you use the 
/etc/passwd file. Also, I'm not as familiar with v1.x, but I know in 
v2.1.10, a userdb lookup doesn't use the userdb_ prefix. So you can try 
it with and without that prefix. userdb_ prefix on v2 is for cases where 
you do a prefetch on the passdb.

I hope this helps. I've been using Passwd-file only for proxy settings 
and ldap for my backends to handle quota.

Jack

On 10/17/2012 2:42 AM, David Travers wrote:
> Hi Jake,
>
> Yep, similar to what I had been trying, but it doesn't seem to be working.
>
> In my /etc/passwd file I had the line:-
> dave:x:1000:1000:David Travers,,,:/home/dave:/bin/bash
>
> I have changed it to show:-
> dave:x:1000:1000:David Travers,,,:/home/dave:/bin/bash:userdb_quota_rule=*:storage=100M
>
> Do I have to put the " userdb_mail=mbox:~/mail " in as well as that is specified already in Dovecot?
>
> Is there anything I need to do once specifying this in the passwd file as the quota limit is not being shown as changed in Open Xchange
>
> Also yes, I noticed the numbering and have corrected.
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Jack Bates
> Sent: 17 October 2012 04:02
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Per user quotas
>
> On 10/16/2012 11:39 AM, David Travers wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I keep going round in circles with this.
>> I have quotas up and running but would like to add a couple of per user exceptions but can't figure out how to do it!
>>
>> I am using Open Xchange community edition on top of dovecot and tha tis showing the 200MB limit, if I change it in the dovecot.conf the change is reflected in open xchange, but can't figure out how to change for 1 user.
>>
>> I believe I need to add to a passwd file, but I have added to that and nothing has changed.
>>
>>
> user:{plain}pass:1000:1000::/home/user::userdb_mail=mbox:~/mail userdb_quota_rule=*:storage=100M user2:{plain}pass2:1001:1001::/home/user2::userdb_mail=maildir:~/Maildir userdb_quota_rule=*:storage=200M
>
> Example given on http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields
>
> Note that the extra fields are prefixed with userdb_ when placed in a passwd file.
>
> Also, watch your quota_rule numbering. You have 2 rules with the same number (quota_rule2 for Trash and SPAM). In the passwd file, you are replacing the rule specified by number (no number technically being the first).
>
>
> Jack
>
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