- how do I keep mails from being rejected and kept in the local mailqueue instead? (which is the old system's behavior)?
- You can set a quota grace to basically have a soft-limit - allowing the user to go slightly above their allocated quota.
- what's the best (or simplest or recommended) way of setting up per-user-quotas in this setup?
- I'm not sure if this is considered the "simplest", but like you I am also using LDAP auth. With this setup, I have LDAP manage per-user quotas. The primary mail schema I use is equipped with a mailQuota attribute. I have this quota attribute set as part of user_attrs in dovecot-ldap.conf.ext. For example, per user quotas in LDAP:
user_attrs = ....,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$
- how can I get an overview/list of all users and their quota usage? (I guess I just solved that - "doveadm quota get -A" seems to work)
- It helps to set up aliases unless you don't mind typing a lot. To get an overview/list of all users and their quota usage I have a couple quota aliases defined:
alias quotaa='doveadm quota get -A | sort -h ' $ quotaa
alias quota='doveadm quota get -u $1 ' $ quota <username>
IMHO the official Dovecot docs are great, but I also battled with quotas for a short duration, so hopefully this will help a bit more.
Cheers, TC
On 9/25/17 11:51 AM, Garry Glendown wrote:
On 25.09.2017 20:28, Sami Ketola wrote:
On 25 Sep 2017, at 21.19, Garry Glendown garry@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 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)?
- what's the best (or simplest or recommended) way of setting up per-user-quotas in this setup?
- how can I get an overview/list of all users and their quota usage? (I guess I just solved that - "doveadm quota get -A" seems to work)
thanks, -garry