[Dovecot] Override quota settings with LDAP

[Timo Sirainen]

On 20.3.2013, at 15.25, Hanno Hirschberger <hannohirschberger at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Mar 20 13:37:04 lmtp(2494, username): Warning: quota: Namespace '' is not Maildir, skipping for Maildir++ quota
> 
> Mar 20 13:37:04 lmtp(2494, username): Error: opendir(/var/empty/.imap) failed: No such file or directory
> 
> ... which is only logical, because there's no maildir for that user. I want to get rid of these error messages and like to ask you if there's a way to override the "quota = maildir:User quota" setting in my Dovecot configuration for the 3 /var/mail users. For example with an extra LDAP field?
> 
> Sadly I don't really know how to realize this. Or is there any other / better way?

Yes, you can override either mail_plugins setting or (probably better) the "quota" setting. If the LDAP value doesn't exist the default is used, if it's empty it overrides the default with an empty setting.