setting quota through IMAP

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Daniel Tröder wrote:
> Am 19.06.2015 um 16:16 schrieb Steffen Kaiser:
>> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Daniel Tröder wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to set the quota of a user through the IMAP protocol. I use
>>> Pythons imaplib:
>>
>>> imap.setquota("test1m at uni.dtr", "(storage 8192)")
>>> ('NO', ['Quota can be changed only by admin.'])
>>
>>> So... which user is the "admin" user in a virtual user setting (passwd:
>>> PAM, userdb: LDAP)?
>>
>> You can't. Use a LDAP-Library to change the values in the UserDB
>> directly, not via IMAP.
> Sure - I do anyway - this was just for a test-case I was writing.
> I'm curious though: in which scenario / IMAP-server does this work?
> Maybe in a setting with a root (uid=0) email user? Or with Cyrus (which
> has a admin user)?

Oh, it seems that Dictionary quota http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Dict 
handles SETQUOTA. This implementation does not support usual UserDBs, 
though.

The admin-status is described here:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Configuration?highlight=%28admin%3D%29

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Steffen Kaiser
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