[Dovecot] [SOLVED] quota with: postfixadmin, postfix, mysql & dovecot

Peter Veerman pveerman at nemo.kabelfoon.net
Sun Oct 1 13:36:27 EEST 2006


Marcus Jodorf wrote:
>>  CONCAT('dirsize:storage=', ROUND( mailbox.quota / 1024 ) ) AS quota \
>>  FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'
> user_query = SELECT maildir, 125 AS uid, 125 AS gid,\
>
> I solved this in a similar way using views with postgresql.
>
> But the real problem IMHO is not bytes vs. kilobytes (solution is very
> simple as you showed above) but dovecot treating '0' values in the
> database literally. All the other programs take '0' as unlimited quota
> and therefore it's very easy to experience an unpleasant surprise with
> dovecot-lda.
>
> If you run postfixadmin as mentioned above you will probably
> completely lock out all your users with unlimited quota. I could be
> wrong here but IIRC postfixadmin uses '0' for unlimited/unset quota, too.
>
Luckily i don't have any users with unlimited quota so i did not ran in
to this problem but, is there any solution to solve this in the (My)SQL
query?

Peter


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