Implementing secondary quota w/ "Archive" namespace

Mark Moseley moseleymark at gmail.com
Fri Nov 25 05:10:54 UTC 2016


On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 24 Nov 2016, at 9.33, Mark Moseley <moseleymark at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> >> On 23 Nov 2016, at 0.49, Mark Moseley <moseleymark at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> If I move messages between namespaces, it appears to ignore the quotas
> >> I've
> >>> set on them. A *copy* will trigger the quota error. But a *move* just
> >>> happily piles on to the overquota namespace. Is that normal?
> >>
> >> Probably needs a bit more thinking, but I guess the attached patch would
> >> help.
> >>
> >>
> > I appreciate the patch! Esp on a Weds night. I applied and rerolled
> > dovecot, but I can still move messages into the over-quota namespace.
>
> How about this updated patch?
>
>
Nope, still lets me move messages into the over-quota namespace.

Both these are true in quota_check:

ctx->moving
quota_move_requires_check




> > Out of curiosity, in the Quota wiki page, it mentions that 'in theory
> there
> > could be e.g. "user quota" and "domain quota" roots'. That's also super
> > interesting to me. Does anyone have any experience with that? I.e. any
> > gotchas?
>
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> There's no automatic quota recalculation for domain quotas, because it
> would have to somehow sum up all the users' quotas. Also I think that it
> still does do the automatic quota recalculation if it gets into a situation
> where it realizes that quotas are wrong, but it'll then just use the single
> user's quota as the entire domain quota. So maybe it would work if you
> externally sum up all the users' quotas and update it to the domain quota
> in cronjob, e.g. once per hour. I guess it would be also nice if the
> internal quota recalculation could be disabled and maybe execute an
> external script to do it (similar to quota-warnings).
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