[Dovecot] Getting maildir++ quotas working

Lee Smith wink at gettcomm.com
Fri Mar 10 00:34:10 EET 2006


Bill Boebel wrote:

>Can somebody post details for how to get maildir++ quotas working in the
>latest CVS?
>
>I have tried but can't get the CAPABILITY string to show "QUOTA"; and the
>GETQUOTAROOT command is recognized, but returns nothing...
>
>  2 GETQUOTAROOT INBOX
>  * QUOTAROOT "INBOX" ""
>  * QUOTA "" ()
>  2 OK Getquotaroot completed.
>
>These are the settings I have... am I missing something?
>
>  protocol imap {
>    mail_plugins = imap_quota quota
>    mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
>  }
>  plugin {
>    quota = maildir
>    imap_quota = maildir
>  }
>
>Here are some more details:
>
>Dovecot is creating the maildirsize file in my maidir, and it seems to
>show correct storage used calculations, but the first line which should
>contain my storage limits is blank.  So I suspect that I am not returning
>a valid quota value from the user database.  I am returning what my old
>Courier-IMAP wants to see "1073741824S,4000C"... if the format for Dovecot
>is different, what should the format be?
>
>So there are two problems that I am trying to resolve, but I'm not sure
>how to go about fixing it.  Any help would be greatly appreciated:
>
>(1) Dovecot isn't announcing QUOTA support in the capability string.
>
>(2) Dovecot isn't getting a valid quota limit, which I assume is breaking
>the GETQUOTAROOT command.
>
>Thanks,
>Bill
>
>  
>
Bill,

   As far as I can tell, I'm seeing the same thing you are.


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