[Dovecot] Enabling quota

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Andreas Kasenides wrote:

> Sorry if this has been answered before, I just could not find any info. Just 
> point me if that is so.
>
> Can somebody please explain why there is no option --with-quota (ot may be 
> --with-fs-quota)
> for the configure command?
>
> As it stands now, at least for the fs back-end the only thing that tells us 
> that
> Dovecot does not do quotas is after the build/configuration we get
>
> dovecot: imap(xxdxx): Error: quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, csfs9.cs.ucy.ac.cy:/mail) 
> failed: No such file or directory
>
> which essentially means that during the build no quota development libraries 
> were found
> and therefore fs quota will not function. This is rather confusing and the 
> above error does not help much.
> Note also that "dovecot --build-options" is also silent on this.
> I suppose other back-ends do not have this requirement since there is no need 
> for such devel libraries.

in which development library your system needs? I thought that error 
message means, that the file "csfs9.cs.ucy.ac.cy:/mail" does not exist (or 
that there is no quota there).

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Steffen Kaiser
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