Le Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:11:23 +0300, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi a écrit :

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:50 +0200, Nicolas Letellier wrote:

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Hello.

I would like to know it a 'proper' solution exist to get the size (in MB) of a maildir. Actually, to get it, I do a 'du -sh' but I'm not sure it is a good solution. And it does not return the same value than imap-quota.

Is there a command, a tool, in Dovecot to get it?

There is the maildirsize but it's very difficult to get the value with a script shell and with this file.

How about using IMAP? Like:

printf "1 getquotaroot inbox\n" | dovecot --exec-mail imap

(or depending on your settings change $USER, $HOME or use netcat and master user login)

Thanks for the response. It seems to be a good solution! But I don't know how use this tool. My mailboxes are in : /var/mail/vmails/domain.tld/username

How know the size of username@domain.tld with dovecot -exec-mail imap?

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• Nicolas.

Le Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:32:59 +0300, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi a écrit :

On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Nicolas Letellier wrote:

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printf "1 getquotaroot inbox\n" | dovecot --exec-mail imap

(or depending on your settings change $USER, $HOME or use netcat and master user login)

Thanks for the response. It seems to be a good solution! But I don't know how use this tool. My mailboxes are in : /var/mail/vmails/domain.tld/username

And you use a single UID to access them?

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How know the size of username@domain.tld with dovecot -exec-mail imap?

See if this works (run as the same system user as mailboxes are
normally accessed with):

export USER=username@domain.tld printf "1 getquotaroot inbox\n" | dovecot --exec-mail imap

If not, post your dovecot -n output. It works perfectly. I made a shell script to get maildirsize, it's ok.

Thanks for the tip :-)

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• Nicolas.