quota rules for mail users

[mkawada at redhat.com]

Yachine-san,

I very much appreciate you giving me the very useful information on my 
question.

Masaharu Kawada

On 2016年06月15日 19:36, chaouche yacine wrote:
> I personnaly use courier's maildirmake, which is a real binary unlike dovecote's maildirmake which is a thin bash wrapper around the linux mkdir command. Courier's maildirmake on the other hand has this nice -q option that let you specify a quota, at creation time of afterwards.
>
> I'm using it in a script like this :
>
> root at messagerie[CHROOT][10.10.10.20] ~/SCRIPTS/MAIL # cat setupquota.single
>
> if [[ "$#" = 0 ]]
> then
>      echo "usage : $0 boite at domain.com [quota en megas]"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> quota=$((1024*1024*1024)) #1Go
> inbox="${1%@*}"
> maildir="/var/vmail/example.domain/$inbox"
> backup="/var/vmail/backup.example.domain/$inbox"
>
> if [[ "$#" = 2 ]]
> then
>      quota=$((1024*1024*$2))
> fi
>
>
>
> function set_quota {
>      local quota="$1"
>      local dst="$2"
>      echo maildirmake.courier -q "$quota"S "$dst"
>      maildirmake.courier -q "$quota"S "$dst"
>      echo chown vmail:vmail -R "$dst"
>      chown vmail:vmail -R "$dst"
> }
>
> set_quota "$quota" "$maildir"
> quota=$(( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 *  5 )) # 5Go
> set_quota "$quota" "$backup"
> echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------"
> root at messagerie[CHROOT][10.10.10.20] ~/SCRIPTS/MAIL #
>
>
> And use it like this :
>
> root at messagerie[CHROOT][10.10.10.19] ~/SCRIPTS/MAIL # ./setupquota.single h.messamri at example.domain 1024
>
>
>
>
>        From: "mkawada at redhat.com" <mkawada at redhat.com>
>   To: dovecot at dovecot.org
>   Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 1:20 AM
>   Subject: quota rules for mail users
>     
> Dear All,
>
> Is it possible to make quota rules under $HOME/Maildir/* mailboxes with
> a specific command such as 'edquota' when the first email arrives at the
> $HOME/Maildir/{new,cur,tmp} of a user. In the below example, the <UserB>
> is the one who gets an email for the first time.
>
> &é"edquota  -p  <UserA> <UserB>
>
> ---man edquot---
> -p, --prototype=protoname
> Duplicate the quotas of the prototypical user specified for each user
> specified. This is the normal mechanism used to initialize quotas for
> groups of users.
> ---
>
> To configure quotas in postfix/dovecot environment, it seems that you
> need to use dovecot-lda plugin, and then my exact question is as follows:
>
> Is it possible to automatically run any commands or scripts in order to
> set a quota rule to $HOME/Maildir/* mailboxes when users receive an
> email for the first time? I just found the post-login service allows you
> to execute scripts after authentication in the following URL, but I have
> not found the exact way to make it.
>
> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-November/044279.html
>
> Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>


-- 
Masaharu Kawada