Thanks for your response Eduardo.

Apologies to the list by the rush and lack of information when reporting a problem.

I have installed on a server as follows:

Qmail Vpopmail Dovecot Horde

With three mail domains using three different webmails.

One of the webmails is configured so that when delete some mail move to Trash directory, I have no problem here because I've configured Dovecot to ignore this folder to quota

The other two webmails are not configured to use the Trash directory and when you delete some mail will be maintained in the INBOX but it shows shading and the server adds the flag T:

1244457746.11461.domain.com, S = 5413:2, ST

So no updates maildirsize and quota does not change, this may result in the accounts quickly reach 100% usage.

Dovecot configuration

# 1.1.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-78.0.22.ELsmp i686 CentOS release 4.7 (Final) log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap listen: *:10143 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login first_valid_uid: 89 last_valid_uid: 89 first_valid_gid: 89 last_valid_gid: 89 mail_uid: 89 mail_gid: 89 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins: quota namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: checkpassword args: /usr/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /usr/local/bin/vchkpw-wrapper.sh userdb: driver: prefetch args: uid=89 gid=89 home=/usr/vpopmail/domains/%d/%u plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: ?:storage=0 quota_rule2: Trash:ignore quota_rule3: Papelera:ignore

Thanks

Jose Luis

Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:14:10 -0300 From: eduardo@kalinowski.com.br To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Urgent problem with deleting emails and maildirsize

On Qui, 02 Jul 2009, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:

...

Dears Sirs,

I hope they can help me with this problem since it is urgent.

I've completed the migration from Courier to Dovecot that has been running correctly, the only problem is that maildirsize file is not updated when you delete the emails, resulting in accounts that reach to 100% faster, so I have to manually delete this file.

Through Dovecot can be configured to automatically update when
maildirsize delete emails?

Posting the same request twice in two hours in not going to get an
answer faster. Especially if you do not add the missing information in
the first post to the second one.

Please show us your dovecot -n output.

That will answer the question, but anyway: do you have the quota
plugin configured?

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You may also consider using an inotify tool like inotifywait to build up a list of maildirs to be expunged, then run an imaptool on the clock every hour, with an extreme nice priority, to do a background expunge.

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

On Qui, 02 Jul 2009, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:

...

Thanks for your response Eduardo.

Apologies to the list by the rush and lack of information when reporting a problem.

One of the webmails is configured so that when delete some mail move to Trash directory, I have no problem here because I've configured Dovecot to ignore this folder to quota

The other two webmails are not configured to use the Trash directory and when you delete some mail will be maintained in the INBOX but it shows shading and the server adds the flag T:

1244457746.11461.domain.com, S = 5413:2, ST

So no updates maildirsize and quota does not change, this may result in the accounts quickly reach 100% usage.

The quote does not change because the mail is not deleted. It's only marked as deleted (T flag). Once the folder is expunged (that's how IMAP call it; your webmail mail give a different name for this action) all mails flagged as deleted are actually deleted and space is released.

The easiest solution would be to use a Trash folder also for this domain. Or, if you do not want that, you'll have to instruct your users to expunge their folders when they want to claim space. I believe there is also a plugin that should do automatic expunging, but I don't known when it's triggered.

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On 7/2/2009 2:57 PM, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:

There is a way that considers Dovecot mails deleted (not purged) to calculate the quota?

I would vote (were it up to a vote) against such behavior...

The message is not deleted - and therefore is still taking up physical storage space - until it is DELETED.

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Dear Timo,

Thanks for your reply.

In Courier-Imap via webmail when delete a email, this was in the INBOX, but it showed as shading and in the server appends the flag T, but was not automatically moved to the Trash.

When calculating the quota through maildirsize did not consider the emails with flag T.

Dovecot is working perfectly, the problem is that as Courier had this feature, users will not purge mails and when migrating to Dovecot, these emails deleted if considered to calculate the quota for which there are many accounts after the migration have reached 100% usage.

Thanks

Jose Luis

CC: dovecot@dovecot.org From: tss@iki.fi To: jolumape_al@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Urgent problem with deleting emails and maildirsize Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:44:36 +0200

On Jul 2, 2009, at 8:57 PM, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:

...

I told you that before migrating from Courier to Dovecot deleted
mails (With flag T and not purged) were considered when calculating
the quota.

Or is it that in Courier you had enabled this "move messages marked as
\Deleted to Trash immediately"? I've no plans for implementing that
IMAP protocol breaking feature.

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On Thursday, July 2 at 05:28 PM, quoth Jose Luis Marin Perez:

When calculating the quota through maildirsize did not consider the emails with flag T.

What's the point of having a quota if users can circumvent it by simply labeling their messages as "deleted"?

In all truth, if it weren't for the "expunge" command, the \Deleted label would be no different from any other label. And from that perspective, what you're asking for is essentially equivalent to a "\DoesntCount" tag, so that users can circumvent the quota by giving their messages a tag that prevents them from counting towards their quota limit. The messages *aren't* deleted; they can still be read, copied, forwarded.

What is to prevent a user from storing several gigabytes worth of "deleted" messages on your server? From that perspective, this is a security problem: any user can attack your server by creating a denial-of-service condition. They can simply store a huge number of "deleted" messages, occupying so much disk space that no other users can receive mail. Normally, a quota mechanism is supposed to protect you from this type of attack, but you're explicitly asking for a way for users to easily avoid the quota restrictions.

Dovecot is working perfectly, the problem is that as Courier had this feature,

That's not a feature, that's a security bug.

users will not purge mails

So what's the point of having a quota?

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