Hi,

I think that using more than one userdb with setting the result actions doesn't work as expected from the documentation. The goal would be to set user-specific quotas for a few users with a specific passwd-file like this :

cat /etc/dovecot/quotas foo:x::::::userdb_quota_rule=*:storage=2G

The first userdb is passwd (with pam passwd):

userdb { driver = passwd result_failure = return-fail result_internalfail = return-fail result_success = continue-ok skip = never } The second one is for the specific quota

userdb { args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/quotas driver = passwd-file result_failure = continue result_internalfail = continue result_success = return-ok skip = notfound } User 'foo' exists in (pam) passd, but there's no place to store his own quota rule, that's why came handy to use a second userdb for storing just one extra field. That's working quiet well, he default quota is overriding form passwd-file. BUT: I've played a lot with changing the result_* and the 'skip' parameters, but none of them worked in the situation where a user ('bar') _only_ exists in passwd (and has to use the default quota config).

doveadm quota get -u bar says doveadm(bar): Fatal: User doesn't exist

With changing the parameters this error has gone, but the second userdb doesn't used for user 'foo' - even if the parameters are :

userdb { driver = passwd result_failure = return-fail result_internalfail = return-fail result_success = continue <-- in theory, the next userdb is coming skip = never } userdb { args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/quotas driver = passwd-file result_failure = continue result_internalfail = continue result_success = return-ok skip = notfound }

My question is that how should i set the result_* and 'skip' parameters to solve this :

• there's a default quota rule in the config
• some (a few) users has a larger quota
• there's no way to store the user-specific quotas in the 'real' userdb (because it's pam/passwd)

Thank you for your effort.

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