Quota - frustrated trying to configure ...

[Garry Glendown]

Hi,

had the quota info added to the AD in an unused field, and it seems to
work ...

>> On 25 Sep 2017, at 21.51, Garry Glendown <garry at glendown.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25.09.2017 20:28, Sami Ketola wrote:
>>>> On 25 Sep 2017, at 21.19, Garry Glendown <garry at glendown.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> doveadm(root): Error: chdir(/root/) failed: Permission denied
>>>> (euid=479(dovecot) egid=478(dovecot) missing +x perm: /root, dir owned
>>>> by 0:0 mode=0700)
>>>> doveadm(root): Error: chdir(/root) failed: Permission denied
>>>>
>>>> It looks like dovecot doesn't actually attempt to look at the central
>>>> maildir, but instead seems to attempt to enter the current user's
>>>> homedir (which, in this case, is root).
>>>
>>> what was the command line you used to test this? As this looks a lot like you
>>> just tried to check root users quota.
>> Actually no, I tried "doveadm quote recalc" without any parameters ... I
>> found the command in the wiki, which - as with most other information -
>> might be helpful if you already know what you are doing …
>> "If your quotas are out of sync, you can use doveadm quota recalc
>> command to recalculate them. “
>
> I agree that this might happen. We must remember that the wiki is written mostly by 
> people that have been working with dovecot for many years. I think you referred to
> this page: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota so I fixed the syntax. The correct syntax
> was in the https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Quota page already.
>
>> I assumed it would recalculate all users' quotas ... using the -u
>> argument with an account actually does seem to work, at least I do not
>> get any errors. Also, the get command seems to be accurate from what I
>> can tell. Further tests show that the system already checks the quota
>> correctly ... and hard-rejects any mails to users with full quota ...
>>
>> So with that part already working, I have new problems to solve:
>>
>> * how do I keep mails from being rejected and kept in the local
>> mailqueue instead? (which is the old system's behavior)?
>
> you can change this setting:
>
> plugin {
>   quota_status_overquota = "552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full”
> }
>
> to give 4xx SMTP error code instead to force the MTA to retry for up to 48 hours as mandated
> by the RFC.

Except for this ... I added the entry to the 20-lmtp.conf file, but
dovecot/lmtp still uses the 552 message ...

tnx, Garry

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