[Dovecot] Dovecot Postfix Quota Policy Service

[Ulrich Zehl]

On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 07:34:44PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> > 
> > I haven't actually tried it yet, so this is just from looking at the source
> > code: The policy service will reject (most) messages that would put a
> > mailbox over the quota limit in both 2.1 and 2.2, won't it?
> > That still seems very useful, compared to bouncing it later.
> > 
> 
> my understanding
> you need quota-grace to make sure  mailbox get overquota for setup
> percent, if there ist no quota-grace ( like in 2.1.x ), most mail will
> be bounced by normal lda/lmtp quota rules , so policy quota always will
> seen some free space in the mailbox, unless the rare case that one (
> last ) mail fits the mailbox quota in exact 100 percent

I just tested it, and now I can verify: As long as the size= attribute is
present in the policy request, Dovecot will correctly reject messages that
are too large to fit in whatever quota you have left.