quota rules for mail users

[mkawada at redhat.com]

Yacine-san,

Oops, excuse me that I mistyped your name.

Once again, thanks a million Yacine-san.

Masaharu Kawada

On 2016年06月16日 13:40, mkawada at redhat.com wrote:
> 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