[Dovecot] 1.0.10 / Quota postlogin / Deliver - Not working according to the wiki?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Feb 15, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Tobias Balle-Petersen wrote:

>> One possibility would be to set $QUOTA before running deliver and  
>> making
>> sure deliver doesn't override it.
>
> Can you tell me more about my options in this direction? You mean  
> the user would load his quota whem logging in, and this quota would  
> stay loaded and visible to deliver even after he logs out?

What you describe sounds like the maildirsize file's header which  
includes the quota information. You can have Dovecot use this is you  
specify "quota = maildir" i.e. without specifying any limits. Some  
possibilities to do this:

a) Move plugin {} section before protocol lda {} and specify the  
quota=maildir in protocol lda {}. I think this makes deliver use the  
one in lda for deliver and the one in plugin for imap.

b) Specify quota=maildir in plugin {} and override it in the imap's  
post-login script.

Anyway I didn't mean this, although this is probably a better idea. I  
was talking about doing some kind of a pre-deliver script:

#!/bin/sh

QUOTA=`cat ~/quota`
exec /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver

But this also requires that quota isn't defined anywhere in  
dovecot.conf or it gets overridden. Also v1.1 requires using an extra  
command line parameter or it drops all environment variables. And this  
of course requires that you know the user's home dir before deliver is  
run.
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