Hi Bernhard,
Hi,
I finally got a grip on our mail guys to try out Dovecot after they started migrating a ~15k user mailsystem to Maildir+NFS (Netapp)+Courier and the performance was not as good as expected. So far the results are impressive, although there are of course a few small issues to be solved.
One is the current Quota handling, which they use with Courier IMAP and (still) think it needs to be replicated 1:1 to dovecot.
Bernhard Schmidt schrieb: possible with dovecot lda, at my knowlegde, dovecot lda only misses the quota warn message like maildrop does ( but there is a patch written as far i know ) after all you can use maildrop with dovecot too. i have also experimental sieve server here , so you can use sieve for filtering, and edit with avelsieves squirrel plugin.
Currently they use maildir++ quota format. Mails moved to Trash get not included in the Quota calculation (standard "feature" of Courier IMAP) and get expunged after a certain period of days (IMAP_EMPTYTRASH).
use ignore trash parameter, this should do the job, read the wiki
Is there any way we could replicate this behaviour with Dovecot? Not including mails in the Trash-folder into quota calculation seems to be a no-go to me according to the documentation, you can ignore the quota limit when copying messages into a certain folder with the "ignore" keyword but they are still included.
This issue is directly related with the second one. Deleting old mails in Trash could be archieved with the expire-plugin, but that does not work with Dovecot v1.0, and I'd definitely want to run this. So I have to use "find", which deletes the mail from the folder. However, those mails are still included in the Quota calculation, so that will very likely become incorrect.
perhaps you might try trash plugin, which deletes mail i.e trash folder if the the mailbox would run over quota by incomming mail this seems to me a better koncept, than simply delete mail by their age read the wiki about it.
cant say what you mean by quota calculation, i use quota in mysql , so i have realtime quotas with thunderbird imap
Is there a generic recommendation for a tool that could be used to rebuild maildir quota calculations? Any other ideas how I could solve this problem and have dovecot behave like Courier here?
Thanks, Bernhard
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