[Dovecot] Enabling quota

[Luuk]

On 27-11-2013 18:14, Andreas Kasenides wrote:
> On 27-11-2013 18:59, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Andreas Kasenides wrote:
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>>> 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,
>>> csfsxxx.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 "csfsxxx.cs.ucy.ac.cy:/mail" does not exist
>> (or that there is no quota there).
>>
>> - -- Steffen Kaiser
>
> Exactly here is the confusion.
> I have verified that this error is not related to the actual mount but
> the way Dovecot has been built. Actually the existence of the
> development libraries. In my case on a CentOS system it needs to find
> the quota-devel libraries which it finds and silently builds quota
> support for the fs back-end. Note that nothing afterwards tells you that
> that has happened!! I think!!!
>
> Andreas


yesterday i did a built of 2.2.9, and quota seems to work...

what is the output of doveconf -n ?