Timo Sirainen wrote:
Usually users have quotas, not mailboxes.
Well... Physical (standard/snail/surface/whatever) mail boxes generally have a physical size, which means it is not possible to put more than a certain amount of mails. The size of the box does not care about who has the key and/or who put the mails in the box.
I think it should be the same for electronic mail boxes, although I don't know how/if it can be implemented with the imap quota standard...
I think usually the user who has created the shared mailbox is responsible for its quota, so no matter who writes to the mailbox the owner's quota is always used for it.
If the mailbox is a "public mailbox" without any specific owner, then I don't know really.. Unless some virtual user was created for this purpose.
I was thinking about such public mailboxes...
In any case currently if mailbox exists in shared namespace Dovecot just doesn't count quota for it. And I'm not planning to change this before doing a larger rewrite to support shared folders properly.
OK. Thanks anyway for your explanation, and for making dovecot such a great server! :-)
Cheers,
Nicolas