Hi, thanks for your helpful reply.
I understand that default_fields is not my solution.
To be more accurate, all users in ldap db need to use mail, but some users in /etc/passwd file use mail too. For this reason I set up "driver=passwd" in userdb section and in /etc/nsswitch.conf I set up "passwd: files ldap". Now I want to use dovecot per user quota to limit ldap users mailbox size. I need quota only for ldap users, no need for users in /etc/passwd file.
Which is the correct configuration to do this? I understand that I need to use extra fields to obtain user quota from users db. But you said "the userdb section cannot merge two databases together". So I can not use dovecot per user quota with "driver=passwd" in userdb section? I could use only global quota?
Thanks in advance
Michele
P.S.
I use dovecot-lda as delivery agent.
I send again my dovecot configuration:
2.2.29.1 (e0b76e3): /var/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.4.18 (29cc74d) # OS: Linux 3.10.55-gentoo i686 SuSE Linux 7.1 (i386) debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot_debug.log disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/state.mail/dovecot.pipe log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_gid = users mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir mail_plugins = acl quota mail_shared_explicit_inbox = yes mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext namespace { list = yes location = maildir:/data/home/vmail/public prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/data/home/%%n/.maildir:INDEX=~/.maildir/shared/%%u prefix = Shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes list = yes location = mailbox Cestino { special_use = \Trash } mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox "Posta inviata" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acl:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot-dict/shared-mailboxes quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=5M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_rule3 = SPAM:ignore sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/etc/dovecot/sieve/general/ sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/local/bin/dovecot/sieve-execute sieve_filter_bin_dir = /usr/local/bin/dovecot/sieve-filter sieve_global_dir = /var/etc/dovecot/sieve/global/ sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.execute +vnd.dovecot.filter +vnd.dovecot.pipe +editheader sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/local/bin/dovecot/sieve-pipe sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = users } } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/bin/imap-postlogin.sh user = $default_internal_user } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin } ssl = no ssl_cert =
userdb { default_fields = quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ driver = passwd }
I have problems in return extra fields from passwd userdb. My users are partially in passwd files and partially in LDAP. Users who use mail are in LDAP db.
If I use "default_fields = quota_rule=*:bytes=100M" in userdb,
if I use "default_fields = quota_rule=*:bytes=%{userdb:quotabytes}" in userdb,
default_fields supplies default values, if the userdb does not return them. Hence, you cannot reference a LDAP result.
the userdb section cannot merge two databases together. You said "Users who use mail are in LDAP db", so you would one userdb with driver ldap.
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